Word: retreats
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Look Forward. "It is specious reasoning for labor to demand wage increases ... on the ground that other sectors of our battle line against inflation are not being held . . . WLB wishes to make clear that it does not intend to retreat . . . even though other divisions of the anti-inflation army may weaken. Before making wage demands which WLB cannot grant under the wage stabilization program, labor should look to what is likely to happen if that program is broken down. . . ." These were brave and thoughtful words, well worth the attention of civilians in & out of labor. Nevertheless, no one, perhaps...
John Is Quick. Lewis' recognition of the Board was a strategic retreat, not a surrender. Immediately after the Illinois contract was signed, Lewis' stooges, the policy committee of the United Mine Workers, called upon all other operators to settle on the same terms. The Appalachian owners answered with a blistering attack on WLB. How could they respect the Board, they stormed, if it did not enforce its directive ordering Lewis to sign a contract immediately and without portal-to-portal provisions...
...advance, follow me; if I retreat, kill me; if I die, avenge...
...every single minute during the entire day all of us, from the last private to the highest staff officer, have been conscious of the monstrous Russian superiority. Our battalions had to be spread out very thin to meet the Russian attacks everywhere. Last night we were forced to retreat hastily. .. . All we could take with us were a few artillery pieces and a few anti-tank guns. But many of our units managed to keep only their machine guns and rifles. It is with those weapons that we have been meeting since this morning wave upon wave of Russian tanks...
...Both in retreat and in their stand near Catania, the Germans already had shown the signs of defeat. Prisoners complained that they were short of tanks, that what tanks they had left were short of fuel. In demolition the Germans had been as skilful as ever. But they were even short of land mines, old standbys of the Wehrmacht in retreat. At this season the rivers were dry, and the Allies had only to march around the ruined bridges. The Germans grew weaker & weaker in the air, until finally Allied soldiers on the ground seldom looked up when they heard...