Word: maine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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French resistance along the northwestern frontier was weak, though brave, because the French had not anticipated so wide a movement against them. While Kluck and Bülow drove through British resistance at Mons, the main French offensive, in the Ardennes, failed. The Third and Fourth German Armies crushed through on schedule, and the retreat to the Marne, though orderly, was saved from being a rout with Paris captured only because General Helmuth von Moltke, the German Commander in Chief: 1) weakened Kluck's Army by taking from it troops to police Belgium, 2) abandoned the classic outline...
From its seats on the Eastern sideline, watching the smashing performance of the German juggernauts, J. Stalin's Red Army was at last unleashed at 4 a.m., Sunday, September 17. Led by its air pilots and big tanks, it rattled into Poland along all main east-west highways on a 500-mile front, from the Dzwina River (above Polotsk) on the north to the Dniester (Rumanian border) on the south. From past reports of the Russian mobilization, some observers guessed that 2,000,000 men were on the move. At nightfall, the first war communique from Moscow listed...
Meanwhile, with the fear of government in their hearts, radio networks, after a week of fiddling, put a code of self-censorship of war news in writing, had it blessed by the National Association of Broadcasters and FCC's Chairman Fly. Main provisions...
...cars, 18 passenger cars, 80,000 tons of rail. Total : $1,7,000,000 of new capital investment (75% to be paid for by the sale of equipment trust certificates), but only a beginning for the Pennsylvania which has 58,380 unserviceable freight cars, plans eventually to electrify its main line further west, faces the largest modernization outlay of any U. S. railroad...
...main entrance has been constructed at the eastern end of the building facing the Yard. The upper two floors will continue as dormitory quarters, with a separate entrance on the side of the building...