Word: mops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Worked out as a compromise between the claims of the senior bondholders and the loud squawks of the junior holders, the new MOP plan is a thorough rehash of the ICC plan issued three years ago. First & foremost it allows for the snappy rise in MOP earnings since 1938, would use cash to pay off more than $50,000,000 top-ranking bonds (the ICC plan would distribute $2,700,000 cash). This fat payoff permits the new plan to give a much better deal to junior security holders and at the same time stay within the framework erected...
...other trainees demonstrated how to avoid and neutralize booby traps left by the enemy. Carefully they carried out a mop-up raid on "Führerville," which the engineers had contrived from old lumber. Two of them imitated weary soldiers trying to find a place to rest, did all of the incorrect things. One picked up a pair of gloves. An explosion followed. The same happened when they set foot on the doorstep, opened a door, shut a window...
...thousands of U.S. troops landed along the 1,500-mile Moroccan-Algerian coastline. They picked up the cry: "Let's head east!" "East" meant Tunisia first, and after that a juncture with the British Eighth Army for the final mop-up somewhere in Libya of General Rommel's bedraggled Afrika Korps. Five or six fresh Italian divisions apparently are also intact and ready for battle somewhere in the Tripoli-Bengazi area. As long as the Axis was in Tunis, the way to Rommel's forces was barred...
...Ljubljana, capital of Slovenia, was cut off from the rest of the country as Italian occupation forces sought to mop up Partisan patriots and restore order...
...Allied advance already had carried as much as four and a half miles into the north, central and south sectors of the El Alamein line, and mop-up detachments were fast obliterating the enemy pockets of resistance left behind by the advance guard...