Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ministers' decisions at Luxembourg were a source of considerable satisfaction to France's General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny, commander in chief of Western Union's land forces. General de Lattre has long believed and argued that Western Union's land forces would have to bear the first brunt of any attack from the East, must have the appropriate priorities. He also believes that Western Union's land-defense program must eventually be fitted into a larger plan for all the Atlantic pact signatories. Not much can be done with this larger plan until...
Venice, which had revolted against Austrian rule and proclaimed a republic, was under Austrian blockade by land & sea, almost demoralized by hunger, disease and heavy artillery bombardments. A young Austrian officer is said to have persuaded his superiors to let him try a balloon attack. Launched in favoring winds from a warship in the bay, the bags were filled with hot air from suspended straw fires and carried 28-lb. explosive charges equipped with primitive rope fuses...
...group of Brazilian newsmen that he had no designs on his neighbors. "It has been said that we want to resurrect the old viceroyalty of Rio de la Plata [which included Uruguay, Paraguay and part of Bolivia]. When they say that, I always say: 'We have lots of land and we don't need any more...
...only 4% of its land were properly cultivated, Brazil could feed itself. With less than 2% under erratic cultivation, the country last year had to spend nearly $200 million on food imports (chiefly wheat), a needless drain on its foreign-exchange balance. It was just such a lopsided condition that prompted Fernando Costa, minister of agriculture under Dictator Getulio Vargas, to launch the university project in 1941. Shrewdly wangling government funds a little at a time, Costa built the core of a $6,000,000 farm school that is now a model of its kind...
Last year, Keener decided to take a trip to Europe and see if he could land some reconstruction contracts abroad. His offer: to build complete industrial installations (e.g., steel plants, sugar mills, gas manufacturing plants) anywhere in the world. Before he left, a friend warned him: "Sam, if you're going to Europe, wear some kind of uniform. It'll get you any place and you'll get no place without it." Sam designed his own outfit and found it worked like a charm, cowing officious customs men and clearing the way through red tape...