Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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North to the Baltic. The ground, which had dried out two months ago in the south, was now fit for large-scale operations all the way to the Baltic. In the south, Marshal Konev's armies had a fully coiled spring aimed toward the Galati gap which leads on to the Rumanian plain, to Bucharest and the oil of Ploesti...
...thoroughly cowed Quebec legislature, by a vote of 55-to-4, a resolution opposing the sending of conscripted Canadians overseas. Said Chaloult: "Great Britain and the United States . . . together with Russia and China have something to win in the end. Their soldiers should be used to fill the gap...
William Martin ("Bull Bill") Jeffers, Union Pacific office boy turned U.P. president, recently chief bridger of the wartime rubber gap, won the American Irish Historical Society's annual gold medal for outstanding achievement by a wearer of the green...
...those with an eye on the calendar, the tentative dates for "change to grays" may be of some interest. The First Naval District is a month behind its New York neighbor in the change to dress blue baker (white covers), but we'll narrow the gap on 1 May when official Navy summer hits Massachusetts...
...Navy last week admitted that it had a brand-new type of ship which has been added to fill out its invasion repertory. The LSM (Landing Ship, Medium) is expected to fill the last gap in the range of vessels needed for amphibious jobs...