Word: sedans
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...Grew was the first off the boat. Dressed in a grey flannel suit, he stepped gingerly down the gangplank, looked about him at the cluttered, smoky, indubitably American landscape of Jersey City. Then he clambered into a black Buick sedan, which took him across the dock where the reporters and newsreel men were waiting. As he grinned, deep lines showed in his face. But he was happy. Nervously fingering his glasses, he stepped up to the newsreel microphone...
Headquarters, Sedan. Marshal von Rundstedt is seldom on the coast by night. Slim, immaculate, the apotheosis of the old Junker class that has furnished the upstart Hitler with his military brains, Gerd von Rundstedt stays by night close to his headquarters at Sedan...
...headquarters at Sedan lie right where they should lie, roughly halfway between the extremities of his danger zone. They are far enough from German headquarters in Paris to be out of the way of the Gestapo and the politicians (whom he despises, as do most of his class). They are close enough for an easy trip to the periodic conferences he must have with the people he despises, but who are part of the Nazi machinery that must keep the conquered peoples down...
Edsel Ford, president of the company that has turned out some 30,000,000 cars, decided to turn in his coupe for a new sedan. He is now awaiting permission from his local rationing board...
...General Giraud was rushed into the breach at Sedan when the notorious collapse of General André Georges Corap's Ninth Army command was already well under way. Typically, the last message heard from General Giraud before his capture was: "Headquarters surrounded by 100 tanks. Am destroying them...