Word: mud
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Venturing slowly out across the lip of the gulch, we plunged downward. Dimly I saw troops hurling great bundles of fagots on to the muck and mud in the bottom of the track, trying to build a bridge for our tanks to cross. Tracers were spitting down toward them...
...Mud & Typhus. The northern spring pulled back the sheets of snow and revealed the dead in Norway (see cut). Cleanup squadrons found hundreds of bodies daily in rubble of Stalingrad...
...weeks the rainy prelude to the summer monsoon, which hits Burma in mid-June, will begin along the coast. It is unlikely that the British can clean up the area now and gain the comparatively dry central sector before the Burmese jungles are turned into a pesthole of mud and malaria. Not until some time in October does the monsoon end. Not until then could the Allies launch a major offensive to reopen the Burma route to famished China...
...about it first hand. It will take a crack on the chin to make us stand up and fight. Don't let us bask in the sunshine of victory, nibbling on chocolate-covered communiques of military achievement, while our sons and brothers and husbands are wallowing in the mud and blood of war throughout the world...
...admittedly serious. But its solution will come with improvement of workers' living conditions and environments. Labor must live as well as work. While some absenteeism is inexcusable, this small proportion is negligible and no rational cause for vitriolic attacks on workers. Neither threatening workers with army service nor mud-slinging will solve the problem. Paul V. McNutt and the labor management committee of the War Manpower Commission, together with unions and local authorities are beginning to meet it. With sensible thinking and sober action, the obstacle of absentecism can be hurdled. But with the handicap of anti-labor attitudes...