Word: halts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Allied bombings, 1,600 tons of bombs, were enough for Rome. The day after the second heavy U.S. raid on the Italian capital last week, the Government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio tried to call a halt by declaring Rome an open city. The broadcast announcement said: "Now all necessary measures in conformity with international law are being taken...
First Moves. How much longer would it be before the masters of Germany caught the contagion? Before they themselves believed the game was up? Doubtless they half believed it now, were groping for a way to silence the music, to halt the players, to darken the house, to pay off the audience, to rewrite Germany's destiny...
General Motors called on Du Pont to devise a cheap, quick method of manufacture. Kinetic Chemicals was set up in 1931, with Frigidaire the one & only customer. Gradually, other manufacturers began to eye Freon respectfully, began to design their machinery accordingly. By the time WPB called a halt on electric refrigerators early last year, all but two U.S. refrigerator makers were using Freon...
...lieutenant called a halt, ordered the platoon to stay where it was while he went off for water. He was back in a matter of hours with water and help. But while he was away, four men had gone off on their own search for water. Three bodies were found. One is still missing...
Disarmament to Come. The Luftwaffe cannot match that air power with enough to halt the Allied bombardment. Jane's All the World's Aircraft, published last week in London, foresaw "the mathematical certainty" that as Luftwaffe power declines and Allied power increases, Germany will be disarmed in the air. Ahead of the Germans is the bitter realization that the Allied air forces, not the Luftwaffe, have grasped the true meaning and use of air power...