Word: rout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...promotion stunt, the Globe Oil & Refining Co. of McPherson, Kans. rounded up a nine-man basketball squad that averaged 6 ft. 5. The Oilers were so slick they won the National Amateur Athletic Union championship that year and five of them, picked for the U.S. Olympic squad, helped rout the champions of 23 nations at Berlin. Last week it looked as if Al Baggett's Buffaloes were headed in the same direction...
Organized by C. A. Pearson 3L, the Hemenway outfit led 41-8 at half-time, and completed the rout in the final periods...
Perhaps the sole action of his life that MacArthur would willingly forget is the Victory of Anacostia Flats when, riding a spectacular white horse, he called out a military force to rout the haggard veterans of the Bonus army from their Washington encampments. Army men tell the inside story. When asked who was going to lead the show, MacArthur realized that any man who did would commit political suicide, wind up in a dead-end career. He decided to take the dirty job in his own hands. But at night he used to go down to the flats, distribute money...
...bond market took fright briefly too. Traditionally stable U.S. Government bonds (which rarely move more than ¼ point daily), dropped so fast that it took joint Treasury Department-Federal Reserve System buying to stop the rout. As usual, Treasury officials refused to say how many bonds they had bought. But the Federal Reserve weekly report showed that 16 member banks had bought $38,000,000 in "Governments," thus boosting total holdings to $3,378,000,000-a new high record. The tactic was successful, since the bonds were above par at week's end. Cracked one dealer in Governments...
...13th, 14th and 16th Panzer divisions; the 60th motorized; the Viking and Adolf Hitler Leibstandarte SS divisions; the 76th, 94th and 97th Infantry divisions. It was said that Commander in Chief Field Marshal Walther von Brauchitsch had gone to the southern front to help put a stop to the rout. But the figure on casualties claimed to have been suffered by all these divisions was 23,000, the normal strength of only one and a half infantry divisions. This would have made casualties through the nine divisions only 17%. The Russians claimed to have formed several traps, but claimed...