Word: freshing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whether Montgomery was over-economical of loss or what, the fact was that the Normandy operation was a stalemated disappointment. This week the weather was clearing again and German commentators predicted two fresh offensives, one near Caen and another at the west side of the front, where hard-hitting Lieut. General Omar Nelson Bradley has been moving up new U.S. divisions. The Allies said nothing at all, but this might...
...Graham Barrow of Reuters and I-and were thoroughly miserable. Peddlers were hawking cucumbers, wheat cakes and tea to the Chinese soldiers jammed on flatcars and boxcars. Up front the tired locomotive leaked steam at the joints while soldiers loaded the train with supplies -chickens, pigs, a couple of fresh red and white slabs of meat crusted with flies. Finally the train lurched sorrowfully out in the heat up the line to the railhead...
Admiral Ernest J. King, fresh from a survey of the Navy's latest acquisition, Saipan, pointed out at week's end that the southern Marianas are roughly 1,500 sea miles from Japan, China and the Philippines. For Tokyo's benefit he added that "1,500 miles is considered a fair operational radius for the fleet. That is an opportunity of which we will take full advantage...
Each man was tagged with a piece of white cardboard from a compartmented box. "When we run out of tags we know we've got a shipload," one doctor explained. Each wounded man's clothes are thrown overboard. He is refitted with fresh dungarees when he goes ashore...
...Fresh from the factory, 500-wagon-red, self-propelled combines drove north with the wheat harvest last week. The roving harvest brigade was big news on the farm front. Backer of the idea was Joseph M. Tucker, shrewd U.S. vice president of Canada's largest farm-machinery manufacturers, Massey-Harris Co., Ltd. Tucker sold the War Food Administration and the Canadian Government on the idea of allocating to Massey-Harris enough engines and steel to build 500 of the self-propelled combines (see cut). The one condition: that Massey-Harris would sell the machines to operators who would agree...