Word: pushed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the blow fell, the Chinese were as rusty as their scanty ammunition. In the years of stalemate no adequate defenses had been built, no preparations made to launch a guerrilla campaign in the enemy's rear, once he began his big push. Some Chinese troops-notably those of plucky little General T'ang En-po-were better than others; but none fared well...
...breechloaders were first used) will plow and batter the Continent, preparing it for the onward sweep of infantrymen and armor. Western Europe will quake then with cannonading greater than last week's Allied barrage at the Gustay Line. Artillery will determine the pace and final success of the push inland. With few important qualifications, the old adage still stands: God is on the side with the best cannon...
...breechloaders were first used) will plow and batter the Continent, preparing it for the onward sweep of infantrymen and armor. Western Europe will quake then with cannonading greater than last week's Allied barrage at the Gustay Line. Artillery will determine the pace and final success of the push inland. With few important qualifications, the old adage still stands: God is on the side with the best cannon...
...steel industry that it is selling many basic products such as plates at less than cost, it managed to hold the line fairly well. U.S. Steel was off slightly, from $17,406,597 to $17,027,616. Bethlehem, with its profitable shipbuilding still an anchor to windward, managed to push up its net a little, to $6,432,538. Only Jones & Laughlin fell far behind, from...
This week, now nearing 40, John Gardner was busy doing something important about the war-born lumber shortage. Helping push toward the 1944 U.S. goal of 34 billion board feet, which Government officials gloomily doubt that the nation can meet, he was bossing the St. John's first big log drive (45 million ft.) in five years. His goal was the whitewashed village of Keegan, Me. There the Van Buren Madawaska Lumber Corp. is preparing, with government assistance, to reopen the East's biggest sawmill...