Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...busy for years after the war. The U.S. Government got a relatively simple taste of the problem last week when it tried to figure out what to do with a hoard of gold, foreign currency and art treasures captured by General Patton's Third Army in a German salt mine (TIME, April...
Eisenhower, Bradley and Patton had put in a busy day. They had inspected the horrid concentration camp at Ohrdruf, visited the salt mine with its hoard of gold and art, traveled several hundred miles by plane and jeep. When they returned to General Patton's headquarters they were tired-and a little sick from the things they had seen at Ohrdruf. They dined, then sat in a big, sparsely furnished room, talking against the steady roar of supply trucks passing outside. Around midnight they went to bed. Eisenhower and Bradley took two bedrooms upstairs. Patton's heavy boots...
Last week, in the bowels of a German salt mine at Merkers, U.S. soldiers came upon the comely queen. The painted limestone head was buried in a debris of art objects and gold bars cached in the mine by nervous Nazis. Waiting only long enough to confirm the news, the newly belligerent Egyptian Government filed its first war claim: hand over Nefertete...
...Payoff. The German command reacted as if. the capture of Merkers and its mine had been so much salt in the Wehrmacht's deep wounds. Near Mühlhausen, about 30 miles northeast, the Germans opened the most concerted resistance Patton's men had met in many days. The Germans lost 40 tanks in one day, came back for more wounds and lost ten the next...
...Humenne, in the burgeoning Slovak countryside, he switched from train to auto. Along the road peasants cheered his triumphant return from six years exile, welcomed him in the old Slavic way with bread & salt...