Word: funneling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...action began along a 156-mile front -the mouth of a funnel narrowing into the Galati Gap, where 45 miles of Danubian plain, marsh and delta separate the mountains from the sea. On the Gap's farther side stretch the fat grain fields of Rumania, the high roads to Ploesti's oil, and the strategic plains of Hungary...
Down the Carpathian flank of the funnel poured General Rodion Malinovsky's Second Ukrainian Army. A massive artillery barrage cracked the concrete firing points built by the Germans around Jassy, Rumania's second city (pop. 100,000) and ancient capital, famed for monasteries and native daughter Magda Lupescu...
Major William Mallory, onetime Yale ('24) footballer, studied the huge map of northern Italy in his headquarters, noted that the wide Po River had remarkably few bridges. All the German supplies for the fighting front, all the raw materials for war industries in the Po Valley, had to funnel through some two dozen rail and road spans. Major Mallory drew his plan, presented it to his commander, Major General John K. Cannon of the Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force...
...that period California will become in many ways the most significant of all the United States. First, its war job, already enormous, will be vastly greater when the German war ends, and it becomes the funnel through which most of the U.S. war effort will be poured. Second, its postwar problems seem likely to dwarf those of the other 47 States, for its main efforts have been in airplane-making and shipbuilding-the two most overexpanded industries, the two which will probably be cut back the deepest when the war ends. If California can keep its millions at work when...
Supplies for two divisions were to begin flowing in at once. At week's end it was estimated that "a few weeks" would suffice to make the port a funnel for the great flood of supplies needed to. sustain General Montgomery's offensive...