Word: shore
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Displaying a small white flag with a red cross on it, five men last week took a rowboat across the Elbe River to U.S. positions at Magdeburg. Out onto the shore stepped a jug-eared, thin-faced man in a carefully tailored Wehrmacht officer's uniform. He identified himself as Lieut. General Kurt Dittmar, "Mouthpiece of the Wehrmacht"-the highest ranking, most objective and (outside Germany) most seriously regarded war commentator on the German radio...
will be paid to packers when cattle sell at top prices. Purpose of these payments: to shore up the sagging earnings of packers crushed between high prices for cattle and low ceilings on meat products...
Land & Sea. Off shore, U.S. warships hurled great projectiles into the Japanese positions. And always over the beaches came the supplies. The Japs sent land-based aircraft against the ships. In one day 242 were shot down. To soften the enemy's air attacks on Okinawa Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's Task Force 58 steamed into Japanese waters, struck at Kyushu, destroyed 368 enemy planes in four days...
...noon on Friday, heavy U.S. ships were pounding Japanese-held sections of Okinawa's shore when the red-balled planes flashed in to attack. From a small landing boat TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod watched a twin-engined Jap bomber sneak over a hillside and head into the fleet, apparently picking out a transport near Sherrod's craft as its intended victim. Sherrod radioed...
First a Trickle. The cutbacks are approximately the same as WPB tentatively set a month ago (TIME, March 19). Big though they seem, they will bring only a tantalizing trickle of civilian goods at the start. The reason: WPB will first shore up the civilian economy at some of its dangerously weak spots, due chiefly to the shortage of railroad rolling stock and agricultural equipment...