Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yanks lengthened the bridgehead to the north and seized rail yards at Königswinter, after bypassing a summit called the Drachenfels ("Dragon's Rock"), where the legendary Siegfried slew the dragon Fafnir. They were coming out of the deep-gashed hills toward the flat plain that leads straight to the Ruhr...
...Office of Defense Transportation with appeals for help. Gist of the appeals: ODT should get tough and force Eastern railroads to return thousands of cars belonging to Western railroads. As the appeal was made, such grain-hauling roads as the Great Northern, Northern Pacific, Chicago Burlington & Quincy, and Chicago Rock Island & Pacific had only a little over half of their own cars on their lines...
Bearlike John Lewis announced his appearance by rolling a rock down the mountain. Three days before the negotiations began, he filed formal notice of a labor dispute under the Smith-Connally Act-to which he referred as "that grotesque slave statute." Thus he paved the way for a legal strike vote within 30 days, and in so doing turned the act-passed by Congress in anger at the 1943 coal walkouts-into a weapon...
Missing. Lieut. General Millard Fillmore ("Miff") Harmon, 57, studious, unstarched commander of Army Air Forces, Pacific; in a converted Liberator bomber; en route from a forward Pacific base to Hawaii. His ability and knack at coordinating Army, Navy and Marine forces prompted Admiral Halsey to call him "Rock of Gibraltar." Successor: his deputy, rugged Major General Willis Henry Hale...
Bataan and Corregidor were names which had been branded on the memory of the U.S. The gallant garrisons of the peninsula and "the Rock" had been lost, with Lieut. General Jonathan M. ("Skinny") Wainwright, because the U.S. had tried to do too much with too little. Last week, while one of his armies (the Sixth) fought the cornered Japs in southern Manila, General MacArthur had ample force to swing another of his armies (the Eighth) down Bataan and across the four-mile channel to the Rock. Wainwright and his men were not yet fully avenged, but the sweetness of revenge...