Word: parallels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...returns to Cherbourg again by a parallel route. On this express belt some 9,000 trucks roll day & night at 40 miles an hour - at night with headlights ablaze, for speed is necessary and the German air force negligible. Every 30 or 40 miles, maintenance companies are stationed to make quick repairs...
...decisive actions in our campaign in Europe, for it was here that the German rear guard was smashed. Regardless of its importance, however, it will rank as one of the most curious battles of the war-curious in that neither the German nor American commands, both marching north on parallel roads, expected a battle of such magnitude...
...royalties last week showed that the Allies were still fighting a smart war. The biggest single collection took place at Mons. There, by the shrewd tactic of conducting a pursuit not from behind the enemy-who could delay it by dropping off rear guards-but beside the enemy on parallel roads, General Hodges' First American Army succeeded in destroying the biggest part of the Nazi rear guard...
Drew Pearson's charges were echoed and supported in the Senate last week by Kentucky's "Happy" Chandler, whose foreign-policy thinking runs in remarkably parallel lines to the Chicago Tribune...
West of Paris other elements of Patton's Third and of Lieut. General Courtney H. Hodges' First Army streaked across enlarged bridgeheads over the Seine. Their clear objective: a sweep northward to cut the retreat Allied pilots reported the Germans were making from their robomb coast. A parallel column, 15 miles to the east of Paris, was at the Marne near Lagny...