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Word: salmson (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British said they would strike again, and they did-in a small daylight raid on a truck factory at Poissy, ten miles from Paris. Plenty of other targets in the Paris factory belt waited their turn. The Farman and Salmson works had been hit-but the Citroën. Peugeot, Delahaye and Hispano-Suiza works, also humming away on war materials for Germany, had not. Near Paris, French optical firms are making tank periscopes, range finders, telescopic gun sights and other fire-control equipment for the Germans. At Levallois-Perret and La Courneuve, French armorers are making...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: Open Season | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

...France's late 40-hour week employed 30,000 workers. Now it clanged away, making tanks, engines, planes and trucks for the Germans-the Russians had found some Renault-built tanks abandoned by the Nazis on the Eastern Front. At Billancourt, also, were the smaller Farman and Salmson works; they, too, made war materials for the Nazis...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF EUROPE: No So Cozy | 3/16/1942 | See Source »

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