Word: gomel
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...leathery skin and a head as bare as a billiard ball, he is one of the dwindling number of oldtimers who survived the test of this war. Like Popov, he headed an army in the Far East before the war. When Hitler struck, Konev was in the vital Gomel sector, fighting stubbornly for each foot of the muddy terrain. In the battle for Moscow, he held the southern anchor of the defense line, soundly drubbed the renowned Nazi tankman, Colonel General Heinz Guderian. Marshal Zhukov once said of him: "Let Konev play his own game under his own rules...
Brilliant Nazi Field Marshal Gerd von Rundstedt had smashed across the Dnieper at two points. He drove southward from the Gomel sector and took Chernigov, 80 miles to the northeast of the Ukraine's capital, Kiev, whence he was in excellent position to get in Kiev's rear, and complete its encirclement (see map). Even more dangerous to Russian hopes was his capture of Kremenchug, 160 miles to Kiev's southeast. From there he could launch a north eastward drive on 150-mile-distant Kharkov, the Ukraine's big railroad junction and industrial center, threaten...
Center. Over boggy terrain in the Gomel area, Lieut. General Ivan Stepanovich Konev hurled pistonlike counterattacks. Russians claimed they had stopped the Nazi drive on Moscow in its tracks. The Nazis acknowledged that Russian "new armies" had made heavy counter assaults, but insisted they had been smothered. The Red Air Force announced a bag of 500 planes for the week ending...
...another subsidiary warehouses one-fifth of everything warehoused in Japan, and still another dominates Japanese insurance. Japanese call Mitsui Gomel Kaisha a "business empire." Its prime minister for the last 18 years has been Baron Dr. Takuma...
...Naval Treaty cost him his life; Second Junnosuke Inouye, the soundest and most brilliant Japanese Finance Minister in a generation; and Third Dr. Dan?to name only the Big Three. Biggest as a Peace Man, from the practical standpoint, was Banker Dan. He had thrown the weight of Mitsui Gomel Kaisha against war, unsuccessfully...