Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Vienna, main rail hub of southeastern Europe, was the gateway between the food bins and arsenals of Czechoslovakia and the 35 divisions in Italy and Yugoslavia. Even before Moscow's 324-gun salute boomed the Vienna victory, the Russians were off toward more decisive prizes. This week Red columns stood only 30 miles from Brünn, one of the shrinking Reich's last armaments centers. Other columns had turned westward along the Danube and toward Linz. There the Russians would be in position to seal off the eastern side of the Nazis' Alpine redoubt...
...Hub & the Wheel. Why had it taken so long, been so difficult to agree on Germany's postwar fate? The easy alternatives-a "hard" or "soft" peace-missed the nub of the problem. In principle, everyone wanted the peace to be hard. The real nub was that Germany-even that smoking ruin-was still Europe's hub. Bombs had not budged it from the Continent's rich center. More than half its industries were workable; of those not working more were damaged than actually demolished...
Hank "the Broon" Sheller and Red English spent six days of their leave together--on the train. Tom Wilcox, "Dreamboat" Walker, Sam Wolf, et al, let no grass grow under their respective feet, for they all had dates immediately after returning to the Hub. What were your dates' names, boys? What do you mean, you don't know...
...resolute face to his foe, his sensitive back to the implacable figure of Ernst Streckenbach, commanding the Nazi 55 Polizei Truppen in Breslau. The Nazis wanted this town held, to tie down the Soviet assault armies yet a few days more, to deny the Russians a good communications hub. They wanted Breslau held to raise the German spirit...
...R.A.F. first tried saturation bombing, was at last in American hands and available for expert Allied study. During the war Allied flyers had sent some 42,000 tons of bombs smashing down upon Cologne. And the city, once more populous than Pittsburgh, once a great industrial center, once a hub of communication lines, had died violently...