Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That Ludendorff bridge thing (TIME, March 19): what a solid gold 23-jewel opportunity for future German schoolbook historians...
Moving Fast. By nightfall the Tenth Army had a solid beachhead more than three miles deep in some places and more than eight miles wide. Within the beachhead, safely in U.S. hands, were the Yontan and Kadena airfields. Supplies were pouring ashore in a steady stream. The next day, against scattered resistance, they pushed on to the east coast, cut the island...
...sight for a night along the Rhine last week. Using no chemical smoke, but combining the elements of speed and daring, the Third quietly jumped the barrier near Worms that night. It did not lose a man, did not draw a shot until the crossing had been made solid...
Stoutly against it were 17 other U.S. airlines, many of which have gained solid overseas-operations experience during the war. They insisted on a policy of regulated competition, permitting all qualified comers to pitch in and fly for the postwar trade. While no man knew how (or when) the argument would be settled, U.S. airmen did know one thing for sure: once again, in a vital matter touching on U.S. foreign policy and trade, the U.S. had been caught sucking its thumb and trying to decide what...
...invited 60 of them to dinner, gave them firemen's helmets and cowboy hats. If anybody needed coal, money or clothes for their children, jovial Father Norman was glad to provide them. After ten years the neighborhood came to feel that the Mission-whatever its religion-was a solid institution...