Word: intact
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...told, out loud, the real reason why General McNaughton had resigned his overseas command. But last week in his small Ottawa apartment, Andy McNaughton talked. He had resigned his command, he said, because he had wanted to keep his Army, stationed in Britain, intact. The National Defense Ministry, yielding to complaints from impatient Canadians, decided to divide the Army, send a corps to Italy to fight...
Westward in Italy Field Marshal Albert Kesselring still held out against an Allied attack that boiled along the length of the Gothic Line from the Ligurian Sea to the Adriatic, still kept his army intact, more than a year after the landing at Salerno...
...Officers who find their close-knit units disrupted by discharges so that they will have to fit new units together from fragments of others. (The War Department admitted: "The simplest plan . . . would have been to return . . . surplus units to this country and discharge their personnel intact...
...General. Some Canadian forces were finally sent to Sicily and Italy, where they distinguished themselves at Catania and Ortona. Meanwhile McNaughton had not endeared himself to the British by his struggle to keep his Canadians intact as an Army. And, being as tough as flint, whenever he encountered steely Montgomery, sparks flew. (McNaughton's Canadians called Montgomery "God Almonty...
...Russell & Co.," was apparently "the only American . . . firm engaged in the traffic." Concluded Pegler: "Delano died in 1898, leaving a personal estate of $1,338,000. . . . When the President's mother died, the state transfer tax appraisal filed at Poughkeepsie indicated that the fortune had been kept almost intact. Mrs. Roosevelt left $1,238,361, of which $20,000 was invested in government bonds and $10,000 in war bonds...