Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...huge flood of Russian might along the Oder and Neisse Rivers, fronting Berlin and Dresden, began to rise this week. The dikes crumpled first in the plains northeast of Berlin. Marshal Georgi Zhukov's forces, behind a tremendous predawn artillery shoot and attacks by swarms of bombers, broke into the Schwedt area below Stettin and set up a new Oder bridgehead 45 miles northeast of Berlin...
...Hundreds of crates and boxes-a huge cache of priceless works of art; Rembrandts, Raphaels, Renoirs, Dürers, Van Dycks; tapestries and engravings; a Titian Venus; original Goethe manuscripts...
...With the huge aircraft Pan Am has ordered for postwar use, some 440,000 passengers could be carried across the North Atlantic each year by a fleet of eight planes in winter, eleven at the height of the summer season...
...thrust past the huge road blocks, rows of logs sunk deep in the road with earth piled in between, where the Germans had hastily improvised defenses. Around these lie the old familiar signs of another lost German battle, the scattered helmets, the ripped off pants legs and coat arms where wounds were dressed, the golden sprinkles of ammunition, the smashed ma chine guns and the still smoldering trucks overturned in the ditches...
...Churches, the Synagogue Council of America and other groups endorsed Dumbarton Oaks Week (April 16-22) and called for nationwide Days of Prayer on Sunday, April 22 and the opening day of the conference (April 25). To keep delegates reminded of their watchfulness, the churches will light the huge (103 ft.) cross atop San Francisco's Mt. Davidson every night for at least the first week of the conference, will keep prominent churchmen in the galleries as conference observers, will fill the exhibit spaces with peace plans of all faiths...