Word: smashes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diagnosis was indeed correct. From that area no reserves could be safely moved -and none could be added, because other fronts were in distress. Yet here was potentially the greatest threat of all to the integrity of the German front. The one way the Red Army can decisively smash the German position in Russia is to crash through the great lateral Smolensk-Kursk-Kharkov-Crimea railway system into relatively ill-defended positions behind it. This week the drive was still young, the results unclear. In any case it kept thousands of Germans pinned down...
...follows this metaphysical reasoning to the bitter end, the Farm Bloc will try to smash the new ceiling to bits. Best augury for its enforcement is the fact that the Farm Bloc is to some degree split: livestock producers perhaps can be played off against grainmen. On the rule of divide and conquer, the Administration...
Most thrilling sequence in Inside Fighting China is its picture of the Battle of Taierchwang. The Chinese lie in wait in the hills while the camera hovers over the Japanese columns advancing along the roads below. Then with a roar the Chinese swarm down, utterly smash the Japs...
With Something for the Boys a smash hit, Porter will start on a new Michael Todd musical about Cinderella. The lead, he regrets, is not quite right for Ethel...
...fresh from organizing the Farm Credit Administration and on the flush tide of farm-labor revolt against the evils of Wall Street. The pattern of war finance and the civilian economy show the revolt brought to its logical conclusion. The farm bloc ganged up with the labor bloc to smash Henry Morgenthau's dreamboat of a withholding tax. The farm bloc, ganging up with the Silver States, kept the absurd silver legislation on the books. And the farm bloc made hash of inflation control. Though wholesale prices during the year rose only by about 10%, farm prices skyrocketed...