Word: mihiel
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...week of the Great Armistice that lost the world a great war. Twenty-five years ago the ambulances were rolling along the hard-surfaced driveways of Walter Reed Hospital, bringing the men out of the foreign valleys-from St. Mihiel, the Meuse, the Somme. Today the ambulances roll again, bringing young men from other valleys-from Nicosia, Salerno, Kiska, Guadalcanal...
Armistice. In September 1918, Colonel George C. Marshall, Chief of Operations for the First Army, finished the planning. On the 12th the First Army attacked along the salient at St. Mihiel. By the end of October the whole Meuse-Argonne front was aflame. In the gumbo mud of France 117,000 men of the First Army were dead or wounded. The German army was in retreat. On Oct. 30 Pershing wrote: "We should . . . continue the offensive until we compel [Germany's] unconditional surrender...
...Democrat (and American Labor Party-endorsed) Lieut. General William Nafew Haskell, 65, was launched by the Independent Citizens' Committee. Bluff, ramrod-stiff General Haskell is a veteran of the Philippines (1902) and St. Mihiel (1918). Said he: ". . . Presidentially ambitious Tom Dewey wants his own hand-picked successor...
...golf or gin rummy. He has little time these days for his stable of blooded mares, and gone are his jaunts to Scottish shooting boxes, to fox hunts in the South. His preSun career sounded like the plot of a Ronald Colman movie (English schools, the Argonne and St. Mihiel, industry, investment banking). Now, Multimillionaire Field, newly realistic, has traded it all for hard, unremitting work...
...target is pointed out, shells from a dozen 105s are on their way-an hour would be comparable 25 years ago. In routine exercises more than 100 guns obliterate targets 800 yards square less than five minutes after they are assigned-incredible by the standards at Soissons or Saint-Mihiel. Some of this speed-up comes from having changed the firing unit from the battery of four guns to the battalion of twelve. Some comes from lightweight radio and improved field telephone. But most comes from the G.F.T...