Word: reared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Franklin Roosevelt, fighting a rear-guard action against inflation, last week ordered his aides to think up some new tactics. His price lieutenants jumped in with the usual set of one-page memos of their ideas, for him to cull and con. Soon, perhaps in the first fireside chat since February, the plans will be unfolded. The usual "informed sources" said that the tentative program, subject to change without notice, will include...
...According to Weltwoche, even before Mussolini quit, the Germans had abandoned any hope of holding all the shores and lands of Axis Europe. Instead, they planned to turn Norway, Denmark and Belgium in the north, France in the west, Italy, Yugoslavia, Greece, Bulgaria and Crete in the south into rear-guard battlefields. As in Sicily, limited German forces would fight for those lands-not to hold them indefinitely, but to make invasion as slow and expensive as possible for the Allies. Weltwoche said that the Germans hoped only to hold an inner citadel-Germany itself, a part of Holland...
...Etna Line. On the remaining Axis forces in Sicily an Allied gate was closing. The Axis forces still fighting were mostly German, now facing the possibility that Italy itself might desert them in their rear. They were in the northeast, facing the Canadians and British of General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery's Eighth Army. But the Germans were not unmindful of the Americans in the west and in central Sicily. Unopposed, the Seventh could close in on Messina behind the Germans, shutting their only way out. This week Allied headquarters reported that the Germans had flung a line from...
...Germans in eastern Sicily could stage a rear-guard action, covering a retreat of their main forces. Or they could stand. Either choice would delay the Allies. Neither could save Sicily and the nearest approach to the Italian mainland...
...hundred and four Radcliffe WAVE officers together with other WAVES from the Boston vicinity will end Boston's observance of the WAVES' first anniversary as they pass in review before Rear Admiral Robert A. Theobald this Friday at 4:30 o'clock. Following the parade there will be a night program at Symphony Hall, where the Navy Recruiting Office will swear in new WAVES...