Word: marshallizing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Construction Chief Alexander Svistunov divided his labor forces (two-thirds of them were youths) into 150 crews, had each compete for the honor of being "Frontline Brigade," awarded only when a crew produces one and a half times its daily quota. Seventy crews won the honor. To them, Marshal Stalin sent thanks and congratulations; for them, No. 6 was called Youth Furnace...
Toward Rumania. In the massive Battle of the Dnieper Bend, churning between Kiev and the Crimea since October, the Red Army won two key towns, gave Marshal Joseph Stalin cause to issue special orders of the day, Moscow cause to jubilate with fireworks and cannon...
...General Vatutin's men fell Berdichev, a manufacturing center and traffic junction, once the headquarters of Field Marshal Fritz Erich von Manstein's South Russia Command. A bitter, five-day attack expelled the Germans from Berdichev, battered them back toward the next and last railway from the Ukraine into Poland. To General Ivan Konev's Second Ukrainian Army fell Kirovograd, a station on a trunk railway leading westward from the far end of the Dnieper Bend...
...hard question facing Manstein was not whether he could hold the salient, but whether he could get out of it in time. The Russians spoke of many prisoners taken, of "disorganized" Wehrmacht columns "powerless to stem our troops." But they also admitted the fierceness of German resistance. Marshal von Manstein's men held out long and bitterly in their strong points, could still stage local counterattacks...
...controlled Zagreb sent out a feeler. It reported Allied landings in force on the Yugoslav shore, where the Second German Tank Army keeps spotty guard. The report was wrong only in its exaggeration of the force: parties of officers and specialists had been landed to help the Partisans of Marshal Tito (Josip Broz...