Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chicago at the last minute? Russia had announced that it was because Spain, Portugal and Switzerland had been invited (TIME, Nov. 6). The six Russian delegates, who had reached Winnipeg en route to Chicago last week climbed into their plane again, flew back to Russia without touching U.S. soil. From informed Washington sources close to the Russians, some light was shed by this frank explanation of the Russian position...
...opened with sarcasm: "This is the strangest campaign I have ever seen. I have listened to various Republican orators . . . and what do they say? 'Those incompetent blunderers and bunglers in Washington have passed a lot of excellent laws about social security and labor and farm relief and soil conservation. . . . Those same quarrelsome, tired old men, they have built the greatest military machine the world has ever known, which is fighting its way to victory, and they say, if you elect us we promise not to change any of that. . . .' They also say, in effect: Those inefficient and worn...
...reveal tables set with meals which the escaping owners had no time to eat." But in East Prussia, the soldiers of young General Ivan Chern-yakhovsky were discovering, as their Allies in the west had already discovered, the almost epileptic ferocity with which the Germans fight for their own soil...
...having come to terms with Russia sooner. Said Churchill: "I hope Mr. Mikolajczyk will soon return to Moscow, and it will be a great disappointment to all sincere friends of Poland if a good arrangement cannot be made which will enable them to form a Polish Government on Polish soil, a Government recognized by all the great powers concerned. ... If the Polish Government had taken the advice we tendered them at the beginning of this year, the additional complication produced by the formation of the Polish National Committee of Liberation at Lublin would never have arisen...
Aachen was not only the first large German city (peacetime pop. 160,000) ever taken by U.S. troops, it was also the first formal surrender of German arms on German soil to foreign invaders since the Napoleonic Wars. Eastward, the Nazis sullenly prepared to defend Düren and Jülich on the way to Cologne...