Word: pours
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ready to move into this gap are the vast forces of the C.I.O. and A.F. of L., which could not afford to stand idly by while Lewis gained a political victory. Also ready to pour through the wall, at another point, is the farm bloc. Thus Lewis may spearhead a pitched battle against the Administration cost-of-living controls. For days, appeasement seemed to be the probable policy: indications were that the Administration might add 5% to the Little Steel formula in a strategic withdrawal. But as the week began the Administration firmed up: WLB voted to hold on hard...
Those Who Run Away. With Harrison Forman of the London Times I arrived in a town called Tunghsientien, a funnel through which refugees pour out of Honan. The refugees are stuffed into boxcars, flatcars, old coaches, layer upon layer deep. They are crowded on the roofs, children, old men & women clinging to any possible fingergrip as the trains hurtle along. Sometimes their fingers get so numb from the cold they fall off. The trains never halt...
...great opportunist, like all good soldiers, Rommel was ready to exploit any gain. And he was a gambler. If he were lucky and could crack Thala, he would have access to the Kremamsa Plateau, could pour troops onto that flatland, could drive against the flank of the British First Army which sprawled across the top of Tunisia. Then the whole Allied strategy in North Africa would have to be recast. This was the crisis when the weary young men braced themselves and Allied reinforcements rushed up to give them...
Bases & Battlefields. Air forces, in the prelude to the final struggle, hammered at each other's bases and communication lines. The score in the air: 645 Axis planes downed; 260 Allied. Both sides continued to pour men and materiel into the constricted, crowded battlefield. Axis forces already numbered 250,000 men, according to Mr. Churchill. Allied forces on the front line were undisclosed, although Mr. Churchill said 500,000 had been landed in Northwest Africa...
Then the questions began to pour...