Word: forward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Though it had a gold rush, a shattering earthquake, Jack London and two world's fairs in its past, San Francisco looked forward with interest to the World Security conference. Last week, as the vanguard of a small army of delegates and correspondents began arriving, the city was ready to do its part to set the stage of history...
...coming of Foreign Secretary Molotov to the conference would be welcomed as an expression of earnest cooperation. . . . The President would look forward with pleasure to a visit by Mr. Molotov to Washington. .. ." Forthwith, Stalin ordered Foreign Commissar Molotov to Washington and San Francisco. Stalin, believing all along that the major decisions on the new world organization had already been made, probably attached no more importance to the conference than he had before. But he was undoubtedly curious about the new man in the White House...
...south, the U.S. Seventh and the French First Armies had slower going, for they were in the outer defenses of the Nazis' Alpine bastion. But this week the Seventh plunged forward 15 miles to the Nazi "shrine city" of Nürnberg...
...over Bradley's front, supply lines were strained to the snapping point. Endless truck columns labored to keep the infantry going, and the forward armor was supplied largely by air. One day C-47 transports hauled up 3,000 tons of supplies, taking wounded and liberated prisoners back on the return trip...
With millions of education-hungry veterans soon to come home, neat, reserved President Ralph Emerson Weeks and his staff were looking confidently forward to many another such milestone...