Word: l
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strike began at Dayton and spread with powder-train swiftness across Ohio's great industrial areas, the bewildered U.S. public wondered what had come over their Nell. The affairs of the Ohio Federation of Telephone Workers, affiliated with neither C.I.O. nor A.F. of L., had been so calm that millions did not know the union existed. But the Dayton local, like many others, had been quietly tapping its foot for months over an "emergency"' company practice. To lure operators to war-production centers, the company had offered an $18.25-a-week expense bonus to any transferring from smaller...
Happiest about Bullock's appointment was former Parole Chairman Reuben L. Lurie. In Boston, bedeviled by uneasy racial relations, the appointment seemed a step toward a new atmosphere. Said Bullock: "It's a great thing for my people...
...jampacked public galleries were sober and attentive. On the floor, Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King and his new Defense Minister, General Andrew G. L. McNaughton, faced a tense House of Commons, summoned to hear the facts about the Army's reinforcements crisis (TIME, Nov. 27 et ante). The Prime Minister picked up a piece of paper. Loudly and clearly, head bobbing, he read an order-in-council.* The Government had decided to compel home-defense draftees ("zombies") to serve overseas...
Eisenhower has a pleasant and sense-making way of telling his commanders what his general strategic objectives are, then letting them devise their own tactics. It was Bradley who designed the breakthrough to the west side of the Normandy peninsula, cutting off Cherbourg, and the breakthrough at Saint-Lô which began the battle of France. For the latter, he had an unheard-of number of heavy bombers laying down a tactical preparation (causing some U.S. casualties), and he had not only regiments but divisions attacking in column. Bradley also designed the Argentan-Falaise pincers, and the scythelike sweeps...
Enclosed on three sides in the Vosges mountains by French and Americans under U.S. Lieut. General Jacob L. Devers, an estimated force of 40,000 Germans was in serious danger of complete envelopment. Their backs were to the Rhine. There the Germans adeptly clung to the few bridges over which they hoped to withdraw men and machines...