Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wait & See. Hap Arnold has made no predictions. He has marshaled the beginnings of what will soon be the greatest air force in the world, has already shipped some of it to Britain to join in the Big Push. But Army airmen have learned better than to talk as loudly as Billy Mitchell did. All they say is: "Wait...
Lanoue claims that sailors could jump feet first through the flames, swim as long as they could under water (swimming for his life, a man might make 100 yards without air), then spring above the flames to breathe, taking a breast stroke to push flames away, and sink and swim again. Thus a man could navigate up to 200 yards of burning oil. Only time Freddie has been singed was when he had on a shirt and an air bubble inside it kept him too long above the surface...
...last week, the company figured that its cars in use were occupied 50-50 by civilians and the military. Civilians can still get their lowers if they do a little planning ahead, but when the pinch comes Army & Navy will push civilians right out of the flossiest streamliners. Says the Pullman Co.: "Every car we own is a troop...
...killed or captured, 540 tanks and 200 planes knocked out of action. A few more such German "victories," said the Russians, would put Germany out of the war. It was a brave explanation, but it did not explain the weeks- the Russians must have spent preparing for the Kharkov push. To the question the whole world asked-could a Russian offensive be maintained...
Rommel's push might be the southern prong of an Axis drive for the Middle East, with the north prong aimed at the Caucasus and perhaps a central prong from Greece and the Aegean Islands through Turkey. If so, the capture of Tobruk would be just an opening puncture for Rommel, as the capture of Kerch had been an opening puncture for Field Marshal Dieter Wilhelm von Mannstein. Or it might be merely an attack to test the British strength and prevent the diversion of British units to Syria...