Word: geniuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem given Rommel was tough and thankless, but just the thing for a former genius trying a comeback. The Partisans under Tito (Josip Broz) then held much of the country in patches of varying strength. They occupied Split (Spalato), the most important Dalmatian port, and many of the islands off the Adriatic coast from Fiume to Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The Germans were on the defensive everywhere, attacked from all sides...
...hills. On roadsides, in vineyards and olive groves of "sunny Italy," troops snatch much-needed rest. Punch-drunk with weariness, shoulders hunched against the chill wetness, they sit with their feet in the gumbo. Hot coffee is a Waldorf luxury. Wood is too wet to burn. When some anonymous genius discovered that the two wrappings around the K rations would burn just long enough to heat a canteen-cup of coffee, he won the soldiers' undying gratitude...
...Genius on the Run. As long as the English language lives, its users will be reminded that Winston Churchill said: "... I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat. . . . Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few. . . . We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. ... I have not become the King's First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation...
...spend their mill-gotten gains. The critics, bidding the waves of hogwash recede, are often in a class with Canute. In the past month most critics have trounced Frederick Lonsdale's Another Love Story, Lou Walters' Artists and Models, Gypsy Rose Lee's The Naked Genius (which even the author held her nose at), Rose Franken's Outrageous Fortune. All four are hits...
...prime example is Douglas' handling of the manpower problem that has graveled all planemakers. The turnover of Douglas workers actually runs as high as 85% in a year, about average for the Southern California industry. But some how, through his genius for organization and efficiency, Douglas has kept production up without flagging. In the air craft industry, with its outstanding man power problems at Ford's Willow Run and Boeing's Seattle plants, this is a sensational achievement. Vice President Conant's explanation for the phenomenon: "We have had good airplanes. We didn't have...