Word: pontoons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massed columns. . . . There are cavalry maneuvers in the grassy meadow downriver a few miles from Remich. . . . The roads are jammed with Army trucks. . . . Every path that comes down from the main road into the meadow has a terminus in a wooden jetty. . . . No attempts are made to conceal the pontoon sections lying alongside...
Somewhere on the Rhine, the Germans were reported massing pontoon bridges. The German people, remembering Hitler's mystical faith in March,* stirred excitedly, confidently expecting a vast Nazi offensive to begin soon. Some even named the day: March...
...grown to international complication, is still all within the grasp of Juan Trippe's Argus-eyed mind, down to the last pontoon float on the Alaska run. He is still Pan Am's one-man filing cabinet. He had flung out new lines, directed deals for foreign landing rights, drawn performance specifications for new airplanes that were years ahead of current design, and kept manufacturers on a hectic hop. The line revolved in a controlled orbit around him, and him alone. The head of the Atlantic division knew all about his piece of the system, the head...