Word: ren
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roer River, north and south of Düren, an explosive situation had been built up. It was like a gas-filled room waiting for someone to light a match. General Bradley's First and Ninth Armies occupied 27 miles of the river's west bank. The Ninth, which had reached its positions first, had been relatively quiet for a fortnight, obviously accumulating strength for a leap across. Now assured of a gory niche in military annals, the Roer was the toughest water line in front of the Rhine - the key barrier in this sector which both sides...
Many Americans died in the mire along the Roer River. The others kept shoving slowly ahead. Immediate objectives were Jülich and Düren, the two main enemy strongholds on the Roer. At week's end the Ninth Army was clubbing its way into Jülich, and advance units of the First, having hurdled the Inde, were approaching Düren...
...next step is up to France's new Minister of Finance, René Pleven. Known better as a colonial administrator than financier, he nevertheless has a solid industrial background, the deft hand which will be needed in dealing with the public. And he has one sturdy prop: the U.S. army in France is, in effect, a huge tourist army. The U.S. Treasury now buys francs to pay these troops, supplements the francs with invasion currency, also redeemed by the U.S. Thus, France is building up its dollar credits at the rate of millions monthly. (In 1937, U.S. tourists spent...
...began as a book, Triumph over Pain, by René Fülöp-Miller. After two scenarists had taken a shy at making it into a screen play, it fell to the brilliant Preston Sturges (Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Hail the Conquering Hero}. As Author-Director Sturges finished it, it was a sharp and memorable refutation of the assumption that Sturges is incapable of ever flatly committing himself about anything. It opened with a leisurely, mock-pastoral shot of a weedy grave marked "W.T.G. Morton, Born 1819, Died 1868," and with a clear pleasant voice...
...mile sector east of Aachen, battlewise First Army troops found they could lunge instead of slog. They lunged upon Eschweiler, nearly midway between Aachen and Düren and astride the six-lane Adolf Hitler Highway to Cologne, only 28 miles away. There the battle turned fluid. More Germans rushed to that gap in their dike, launched weak, futile counterattacks...