Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...armies-and would have them until the key junction points west of the Don were seized. The Germans' worries showed less in their accounts of the battles than in their home propaganda. Said Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels: "We are spared nothing. History is quite without grace or mercy. . . . Wherever we look, we see mountains of problems which must be mastered by us. Everywhere the path ascends at a steep and dangerous angle, and nowhere is there a shady spot where we may stay and rest...
...apprentice to snow-maned Architect Frank Lloyd Wright pleaded guilty in a Madison, Wis. court to refusing to appear for induction, got a period of grace from Federal Judge Patrick T. Stone to "think it over." The apprentice denied the teacher-architect had told his students to evade service by becoming conscientious objectors, but the judge had his suspicions. "I think you boys are living under a bad influence with that man Wright," said he. Up at his Spring Green colony Wright exclaimed: "I would no more dream of counseling my students against going to war than I would dream...
...than a half billion dollars worth of products, turned out $1.3 billions. Alcoa, damned and doubly damned for the aluminum mess of 1941, smashed the ingot shortage and ended the year by producing about 88% of all aluminum in this country. Bethlehem Steel under the close-lipped Eugene G. Grace proved itself as finely tempered a war instrument as under the flamboyant Charlie Schwab. Detroit smothered some of its bitter labor-management rows under an uncataloguable output of tanks, Oerlikons, bombs, shells, time fuses and jeeps. The aircraft industry, drawing on Detroit for engines and parts (and in the case...
...transports totaling 53,000 tons sunk by submarines off Casablanca, Rabat and Algiers. The five, which went down with wartime paint and wartime names, were once well-known passenger ships: American Export Line's Excalibur and Exeter, American President Line's President Cleveland and President Pierce and Grace Line's luxury liner Santa Lucia. Casualties were "very small," said Washington...
...Focke-Wulf 1903. In a brief burst of hell, one of the crew was killed, three were wounded. The Fortress was struck by ten cannon shells. But plane & crew saw it through to an American airdrome-"surely," said an Irish sergeant who heard the survivors' story, "by the grace...