Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frown. WFBR and WCAE had been Red network stations and chose to go Mutual rather than be put in the Blue package. Besides its acquisitions in Baltimore and Pittsburgh, Mutual will also take over next fortnight Buffalo's WGR, a CBS outlet, which decided to shift allegiance when its sister station WKBW moved to CBS. Next year Mutual will absorb three more NBC stations...
...Most shifts in British Command are easily passed over-with a grave pat on the back for the deposed man, three cheers and a tiger for the new one. But last week's shift, involving the greatest British military hero of the war, could not be tossed off lightly. Winston Churchill got into a dreadful row with Leslie Hore-Belisha for failing to explain the exchange. Observers were left to discover their own explanations for the shift. It was not difficult...
...purpose of the Plans was defensive -to shift Russia's center of gravity to the hinterland-and official statistics now put 33% of Russia's coal, power, iron, 80% of her copper production east of the Urals. But how well the Five-Year Plans have succeeded otherwise no one outside of Russia and few inside know. Doubtless the center of gravity has not yet shifted as far as Russian leaders wish...
...reported cut by a bayonet. A few hours after two battalions of troops had taken over, workers were streaming through the gates, and Lieut. Colonel Charles E. Branshaw, in command, announced that the tie-up was over. Some 2,000 workers, about one-quarter normal complement for the shift, were back inside, limited production had been resumed. Unless there was a new outburst, North American would soon be back at top-speed operation...
...above all the shift turned the heat on besieged, already broiling-hot Tobruch. For two months the British had clung to this inhospitable town because it lay athwart the Axis lines leading to Egypt. All week long Axis dive-bombers flying the easy 250-mile haul from Crete pounded the British defenses. The Italian press, with the jubilance of anticipated revenge, loudly guessed that the all-out Axis attack on Tobruch would come soon. The spearhead of the Axis forces, which fortnight ago squeezed its way through Halfaya ("Hellfire") Pass, the only convenient gateway from Libya to Egypt, would...