Word: slicing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...widened, it also became an effort to destroy the Germans' entire system of communications and supply in the Ukraine, to endanger Axis forces both in the Don-Volga area and in the Caucasus. The great object of the Red Army's winter strategy was now clear: to slice up the Germans' winter lines, keep the Wehrmacht on the defensive from Rzhev to the Caucasus...
...permission for famed Photographer Edward Steichen to photograph it in action. Came the day, and Steichen disposed his assistants high in the amphitheater with flash bulbs. The patient, a woman, had hardly arrived on the scene when Erdmann opened up her abdomen from top to bottom with one neat slice. Suddenly, in the rafters, the photographer's assistants lost their lunches and their balances. Steichen gave up for that day. Next time he fortified himself with troops who had been "blooded." After Erdmann's usual greetings to the assembled throng-he always gives a special greeting...
...estimated that this new rate will slice $773,000 off Eastern's annual mail pay, cut next year's mail revenue to $1.3 million. But CAB pointed out that Eastern stands to clear in the next twelve months an operating profit of $3.3 millions from its non-mail operations...
...Production Requirements Committee, which at last possesses the basic facts on the size of the scarce materials pie, will slice it into seven pieces-for Army, Navy, Maritime Commission, Lend-Lease, BEW, Civilian Supply and Charles Edward Wilson's new aircraft scheduling unit...
...These agencies will slice their pieces into smaller ones for their prime contractors-who will already have consulted with WPB's materials branches on their total needs...