Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Government bonds to the banks is of course inflationary because it adds to the amount of credit money in circulation. But selling them to the central bank is the next thing to printing greenbacks. (France followed that road to inflation in the early '20s.) It means one more retreat from what the Treasury itself has said was its wartime objective: to cut down the sale of bonds to the banking system (whether the Federal Reserve or individual banks) and to sell them directly to the public to help cut down personal spending...
This is the story of Squadron 80, a group of British pilots who flew up from Egypt to help the Greeks against the Italians and Germans. It is also the love story of Flying Officer John Quayle and the Greek girl he married in the welter of the British retreat to Crete. But above all it is the story of the planes, the mechanical heroes of Squadron...
...Correspondent Aldridge reports this fighting from personal experience (he was correspondent for North American Newspaper Alliance). Heroic place names of the Greek campaign appear again with the old ring-Argyrokastron, Janina, Larissa, the Pindus, Arta. Greek soldiers, ill-equipped, ill-led, climb slowly down the mountainsides in reluctant retreat. They shoot their pro-Nazi officers who talk of surrender, filter silently into hiding in the forests when their units are shattered. Their tragicomic air ace, Nitralexis, goes out on reconnaissance in a French biplane of 1918, taking along the nearest things to bombs he can get-empty bottles, old boots...
...which the Negro is with good reason beginning to wonder what he would lose by a Nazi victory, it reflects a policy which must now penetrate all sections of the nation. The Negro problem at Princeton has now approached a crisis from which there is no retreat...
...warning that the United Nations could read in the Red Army's heroic retreat was that soon they might have to face the Axis without effective Russian aid. If Marshal von Bock could push the Russians across the Volga and then successfully stabilize his lines, Hitler could withdraw armies and air fleets for use in other theaters...