Word: mats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...been a step-by-step assault. But Ike and his staff had ready all the plots and plans and reports and records, they had assembled men and matériel and were ready to uncork the next secrets of A.F.H.Q. It would not be long...
Last week, dressed in his Gaucho garb, with his trusty maté pot strapped under the belly of his trusty horse Bolivar, Marcelino again set forth from Buenos Aires, with a string of eight horses and one bell mare. From Recife in Brazil Marcelino planned to ship over to Lisbon, thence to ride through Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Poland and Lithuania to Moscow's Red Square. He would leave a good Argentine horse with the Chief of State of each nation he passed through, saving the bell mare for Prime Minister Churchill on his way back...
Mounting stock piles of U.S. matériel, and the recent appointment of Major General George E. Stratemeyer to the command of U.S. air forces in Burma, India and China (TIME, Aug. 30), meant that Lord Louis would have active U.S. aid there. His deputy commander would probably be a U.S. Army...
...germans' invitation," in "important discussions." From the German point of view these discussions had only two objects: maximum, to hold the Badoglio Government to its Axis alliance for war and/or peace; minimum, to keep Italy in the war long enough for Germany to get forces and matériel down through the Brenner to hold a de fensive line south of the Po. But German broadcasts stopped using the word "Axis...
Transport of war matériel will cease Aug. 15; traffic of furloughed men to & from Norway and the "horseshoe traffic" from Trondheim to Narvik via Swedish territory will be discontinued Aug. 20. Only sop to the Nazis was the phraseology of the announcement, which called Sweden's decision an "agreement." No one was fooled; Sweden gave no compensating concessions. The Swedish Army (500,000 wellarmed, well-trained men) was holding full-scale maneuvers in south Sweden at the moment of the announcement. The action, affecting the transport of an esti mated 250,000 men per year, will force...