Word: havoc
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They smashed at Copenhagen's docks and shipyards. They played havoc at a favorite old spot, the many-railed freight yards and junction of Hamm. At Bremen they smacked the big Focke-Wulf aircraft plant where a new twin-tailed fighter with "swallowed" engine is being turned out, said to fly 400 m.p.h. Each side was "softening up" the other and a report from far-off Turkey carried by travelers from Germany indicated the kind of damage both sides were already suffering. According to the accounts the Rhineland populace was thoroughly terrorized by R. A. F.'s incessant...
...morning when Weygand flew over he could see the Germans with motorized divisions on their flanks sweeping westward in a corridor between the isolated Allied Armies and Paris. German tank units were already raising havoc with Allied communications along the seacoast. Behind them German infantry and artillery divisions dropped off to strengthen the sides of the corridor. Already Reichenau (who was at the centre in Poland and performed the final closing of the bloody envelopment of Kutno) was driving on Lille. Küchler (who commanded the German left in the Polish massacre) was pressing through Ghent...
...never to retreat except to resume formation, never to worry about food, fuel, ammunition supply, which would be sent forward to them in due time. Should a Panzer column reach an impasse, its duty was to fan out in all directions, like an exploding projectile: to play havoc upon railroads, telegraph, telephone, power, gas and water lines...
...raid the British claimed to have wrought havoc over a 200-mile stretch of Rhineland between Dusseldorf and Mann heim. Their special objectives were gasoline tanks and refineries, the fuel supply which Germany needs for her planes and motorized equipment. Such attacks in vited retaliation, but the British knew they would soon be bombed anyhow...
...able-bodied adult males, 1,600,000 are under arms. Their mobilization postponed last autumn's plowing; their presence in the Army has caused a farm-labor shortage this spring. Bitter winter and spring floods have combined with these war-brought conditions to play havoc with Rumania's wheat crop. Instead of a normal export surplus of $20,000,000 worth, this year's surplus is expected to be little more than half that. And Germany, which last year got $8,000,000 worth of the crop, this year wants $10,000,000 worth. If Rumania will...