Word: maginot
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...Nigeria, British West Africa, a village chief was recently giving shelter to two natives wanted on criminal charges. Around his village, the chief built a "Maginot Line" of thornbush to keep out the authorities who wished to arrest the wanted men. For the first time in the history of human conflict the mechanical bulldozer-a contraption which is used to level bumpy ground-was to go into battle with fighter cover...
...President moved swiftly along his jerry-built Maginot Line against inflation, shoring up the timbers, nailing up the windows and doors against the attack. But it was a terrible task; too many things had been let slide or mismanaged. Political bloc was arraigned against political bloc, farm bloc against labor, pressure group against pressure group. Franklin Roosevelt was partly at fault; he had not discouraged their warfare...
...course bring the bulk of the U.S. war machine to a grinding stop by cutting off two-thirds" of the nation's electric power, stopping most of its railroads and steel mills. And if they win, they will spearhead the forces that may smash the President's Maginot Line against inflation...
...strike" -he had joined in the no-strike pledge given by labor shortly after Pearl Harbor. But his meaning was clear: he planned to turn his demand for a $2-a-day wage increase into an all-out assault on the Administration's Maginot Line against inflation. Behind the line the Administration worked frantically on its defenses. First move: a delaying action designed to gain another month for negotiation. For if John Lewis gets his raise, he will have breached the War Labor Board's "Little Steel formula," which limits raises to 15% since...
There he could make a stand behind the Mareth Line, the "Little Maginot" of pillboxes and cement forts strung along the hills in southern Tunisia from the Gulf of Gabès 20 miles inland. There were already reports of Axis troops from Tripolitania hastening into Tunisia. There was even a report (from Berlin) that Rommel himself had left Tripolitania to go "elsewhere on another job." The report obviously was put out to save the fox's face, now that he had lost his tail. But it might be true. Rommel might have gone to Tunisia...