Word: generalissimoing
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...dizzy weeks of needling, wheedling, probing, recommending and arguing, the 50-year-old trouble shooter had succeeded handsomely in administering to Free China's sole remaining commercial traffic vein a much-needed shot of adrenalin. Tonnage of U.S. and British war materials hauled through Burma to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's anxious people had more than doubled, promised to reach, then exceed the Road's original estimated capacity of 30,000 tons a month...
...contorted, breath-taking and important highway, Arnstein told newshawks at Chungking: "It's a good road, and its capacity, with efficient operation, is practically unlimited. It is possible that in the future Burma Road traffic will be limited only by the capacity of the port of Rangoon." To Generalissimo Chiang these were heartening words. Cut off by the Japanese from her seacoast and from rail communications in Indo-China, Free China today finds herself as wholly dependent for materiel upon the Burma Road as is Britain upon the North Atlantic. And even had the burly Chinese truckers, who battle...
...face of the Japanese pounding, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek told his people: "Show your dauntless spirit in this crucial hour. . . . China's sons will soon be avenged...
...plea of blonde, admirably curved Edith Rogers Dahl, Generalissimo Francisco Franco four years ago reprieved her check-bouncing, pilot-of-fortune husband, Harold ("Whitey") Dahl, from the death sentence passed on him for flying for the Loyalists. Overcome by her tear-jerking letter, her eye-filling photo, the General wrote her promising to spare her husband, signed his letter with the polite Spanish Q.b.s.p.-"who kisses your feet...
...propaganda blows by the Axis last week rang through Latin America: Circular Letter. Spain's Generalissimo Francisco Franco, in a letter sent to all Latin American governments, told how Spain had joined Adolf Hitler's crusade against Communism: 90,000 Spaniards had enlisted in the German crusade, which was continuing to recruit "youths who will go forth to defend Occidental Christian civilization...