Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month-long battle (TIME, Nov. 27), directed from Washington, to raise U.S. production. Taken at face value, they looked like real cause for alarm. But the simple fact was: the U.S. has not yet lost a battle for want of supplies. General Somervell was careful to make this point plain: "Make no mistake about it; no one so far has suffered. . . . Our problem is to keep us from suffering...
...Germans suffered their worst pangs last week in the Saar, where the blast furnaces* were under paralyzing shell fire from the advancing Third Army (see below). But the struggle for the Saar was beginning to resemble the bloody infighting of the Cologne plain...
...sent two columns into a pre-dawn assault without the usual artillery preparation, caught the Germans napping. In two days the Seventh's men had taken Haguenau, the enemy's anchor point along the Rhine, 16 miles above Strasbourg. Beyond Haguenau was the 25-mile-wide Rhine plain. If Patch's northward thrust could be developed, the whole Saar Palatinate area would be outflanked...
Through the ankle-deep mud of the Emilian plain, Canadians of the Eighth Army fought from grapevine to grapevine toward Ravenna (pop. 78,000), Byron's favorite Italian town, once an early Christian metropolis and a naval base in the days of Augustus Caesar. Finally the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards drove in from the northwest while the 27th Lancers pushed in from the south. The Germans backed out so quickly there was no time for house-to-house fighting. Residents turned out for the kind of flag-waving reception the toiling troops in Italy had almost forgotten...
...action as chief of civilian and foreign affairs must have the Generalissimo's watchful approval. In the task of coordinating and streamlining government, stepping up production, promoting constitutional reform, healing the breach between political factions. T.V. would need every shred of his talent for administration, negotiation, compromise, and plain getting-things-done...