Word: plain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hartford, insurance companies subscribed $200,000,000 for 150 tickets to Information, Please. Plain citizens brought in an additional...
...figured, would chew up from two to three times as much critical material and twelve times the operating manpower that northern pipelines would take. The Citizens Emergency Committee for Eastern Transportation Relief came out for the ditch. The Citizens Emergency Committee on Non-Defense Expenditures came out against it. Plain citizens were confused, as usual...
...Finish? When General Sir Bernard L. Montgomery wrote these words, the men of whom he was so justly proud were busily engaged in driving Rommel into his last North African refuge. Rommel's main forces were already streaming through Enfidaville (see map), out of the flat plain and into the fortress hills. The battle of central Tunisia was virtually finished and won. The Eighth Army had traveled nearly 150 miles in a week...
...Fondouk. The Fondouk action afforded a sharp comparison between British and U.S. troops. The British were assigned to clear the heights to the left of the pass leading to Fondouk, the U.S. troops the heights to the right. These were important preliminaries to getting through to the coastal plain where Kairouan and perhaps some of Rommel's retreating strength could be assaulted. When the British troops reached their first objective at 7:30 the first morning, the U.S. troops had not begun to move. All day the British worked their way efficiently along their ridges...
From Tunisia, fortnight ago, came five striking newspictures. U.S. publishers played them big. One was particularly eye-catching: a photo of a U.S. patrol advancing across a Tunisian plain while in the foreground Medical Corpsmen fixed up a wounded trooper. TIME and the news papers, rushing to press, played the picture straight. The New York Daily News gave it a ten-column, double-truck display, called it "a great battle picture"; so did Editor & Publisher, publication trade weekly. LIFE, pondering the picture, had grave qualms, finally printed it double-spread, but with a skeptical caption: ". . . In spite of the apparent...