Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thousands of U.S. citizens could see the President of the U.S. and the Prime Minister of Great Britain together on U.S. soil. Millions heard their voices over the radio (see p. 40). The sight & sound of the two men side by side, the big American and the chunky little Britisher, was a living demonstration of how history walks and talks...
Germany. "Mighty strokes of war have already been dealt against the enemy - the glorious defense of their native soil by the Russian armies and people. Wounds have been inflicted upon the Nazi tyranny . . . which have bitten deep and will fester and inflame...
...Signed a bill awarding soil-conservation benefits to farmers whose land is commandeered by the Government for national defense...
...positions 50 or 60 kilometers east or west." On to Berlin! From Moscow via Stock holm came news that Joseph Stalin had called together his highest war chiefs and told them to press their advantage, to roll the Germans on & on, to defeat them on their own blood-dry soil. Since it took the German central Armies five great battles to get within field-glass view of Moscow, it was not likely that the Russians would now be able to surge in one unbroken wave to Stettin, Frankfurt-an-der-Oder and Breslau. This first happy plunge would necessarily wear...
Mexico's Heel. To arid, lizard-like Baja (Lower) California, via Nogales, Ariz. and San Diego, Calif., went Mexican troops, moving across U.S. soil with Washington's permission. Avila Camacho, in a smart military-political stroke, named his predecessor Lázaro Cárdenas chief of Mexico's land, air and naval forces on the west coast, concentrated most of his country's tidy little Navy in the Pacific. From his Senate he sought authority to open ports and bases to ships and planes of the U.S. and any American nation at war with...