Word: panzers
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...strafed the Russians mercilessly, but enabled the German command to know what was going on while the Russian command was largely in the dark; 2) the inability of the Reds, who did not see the battle whole, to mount anything bigger than local counterattacks. Except for these two contingencies, Panzer-conscious Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevsky, a dead man, might have licked Adolf Hitler...
...Nazi-controlled Paris press howled for just that, and castigated General Weygand for going no further "than an oath of loyalty to the Marshal." It was rumored that two Nazi Panzer divisions with 1,000 tanks had crossed from Spain to Spanish Morocco, ready to force Hitler's will, if necessary, on Vichy's North African forces...
...pleas of Adna Chaffee and a few like-minded pioneers, the Army split tanks between Cavalry and Infantry. Even so, German observers got some valuable pointers from the Army's single Mechanized Brigade, put many of Adna Chaffee's ideas into use in the Nazis' first Panzer divisions...
Instead of his old staff of two well-meaning assistants he found, going at Panzer tilt, eight big departments, manned by a dozen lieutenant colonels, 15 majors, ten captains, 25 lieutenants, 20 civilian writers, picture and radio editors, assorted experts of all shades, plus more than 150 clerks, typists, stenographers, mimeograph operators...
...House was the committee proposal to make joint returns mandatory. Congressmen feared its impact on the women's vote, thought wives might imagine that it somehow abridged their rights. When they marshaled their forces in the House this week, they obliterated the joint-returns proposal like a Panzer division going through a troop of Girl Scouts. They did not even stop to fill the $323,000,000 gap where joint returns had been. Instead, they rolled on, passed the rest of the bill as it stood, left the mopping up to the Senate...