Word: leanness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Previously, the London Poles had disclosed that Bor was Lieut. General Tadeusz Komorowski, a regular-army cavalry officer. Blue-eyed, dapper, cleanshaven, lean and tall, he was born 46 years ago near Lvov, fought the Germans in the last war, was slightly wounded in Warsaw, later became an officer and attended the Ecole de Guerre in Paris. He was commanding a cavalry brigade in 1939 when Poland fell. In the summer of 1943 General Wladislaw Sikorsky appointed him chief of the Polish underground, less than 24 hours before Sikorsky was killed in an airplane crash. The Germans were said...
...bridges and sunken barges so that coal and wheat can be brought in by water. Last week G-5 was able to report that 3,800 tons of food were reaching Paris daily. This was 600 tons short of what Paris needed and Parisians were in for a cold, lean winter. But they would not starve or freeze to death. To the U.S. Army the Paris Prefect sent his thanks and "the living gratitude of the population...
...supply its Kwantung Army in Manchuria and its growing legions in China, Japan has begun to lean more heavily upon its steel industry in Manchuria. Blast furnaces there are closer to the source of coking coal, and the finished products can be shipped overland to the armies, easing the burden on the Japs' overtaxed, dwindling ship tonnage. Greatest of the steel works in Manchuria is at Anshan...
...unarmed Flying Fortresses into Hawaii early in the morning of Dec. 7, 1941, a 6 ft. Texan named Richard Carmichael has been in the middle of the war. In Australia his squadron joined the famed 19th Group which made its way out of the Philippines and Java. During the lean days of 1942 Carmichael made many a daring bombing mission over Lae, Salamaua, Rabaul, won the DSC, DFC, Silver Star. As a lieutenant colonel he took command of the 19th...
Navy Minister Angus Lewis Macdonald, a lean Maritimer, slumped in his leather chair and studied the ceiling in Ottawa's press gallery. Then he sprang the news: back in 1941 the Dominion Government had committed itself to a Navy of at least 9,000 men after the war. Minister Macdonald himself thought a force of 15,000 would be "more likely ... [to] satisfy Canadians," hoped the nation would keep two cruisers, two carriers and eight destroyers in postwar fighting trim, with lesser craft to match...