Word: hubs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Politically, sentimentally, in prestige, Paris would be a tremendous victory. But militarily, Paris was a tactical objective, already partly taken. Paris was the hub from which rail and road spokes radiated all over northern France; to the south, west and northwest most of them had already been cut. Its further importance was that it was a center of wire communications and administration, a storehouse of German arms. Its ring of airfields could be quickly put to Allied use. But Paris as a strictly military victory was overshadowed by one behind it and one beyond...
...hub of the wheel," reports Pertinax, "the Havas Agency handed out advertising contracts. And not merely advertising contracts but the bounty of such gentry whose reputations needed currycombing. . . . The major Paris and provincial newspapers - some ten at most -got the lion's share. The rest plotted and scuffled to get larger cuts...
...great city of Philadelphia, the nation's No. 2 center of war production, lay half-paralyzed last week, its transit-nerves cut by the worst U.S. transportation strike in World War II. Its 900,000 war workers (who make everything from hub caps to vital radar equipment) hitch hiked, trudged miles on 'sweltering side walks-or stayed home. At least 500,000 man-hours of war production were lost, Army & Navy officials estimated. Philadelphia's taverns and liquor stores were shut by police; department stores lost thousands of dollars of trade. All this was bad enough...
...center the Eighth Army broke a three-week deadlock by bursting through four German divisions to capture the high way hub of Arezzo, controlling German lateral communications, then tooled on across the Arno...
Road to Paris. Beyond the Plain of Caen, the road leads straight to Paris, 120 miles east. That fabulous prize was more than the hub of the whole intricate French rail network; it was the symbol of German victory and of French defeat. The Nazis would defend Paris as fiercely as Berlin. To halt an Allied drive on Paris they would throw in their entire strategic reserve-if they were sure that was where Monty was headed...