Word: spearheaders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes at the same positions, flew 2,000 sorties in one day. At the extreme crisis, artillerymen under Lieut. Colonel Hal Muldrow, one of the many Oklahomans, were the only forces facing German tanks and infantrymen. Muldrow stripped his gun crews, gave them rifles and machine guns. The German spearhead was stopped, enveloped, thrown back. Near the northern end of the bridgehead the British stopped a German advance, seized the town and airfield of Montecorvino Pugliano. On the eleventh day a reporter flying over the lines saw columns of Germans retreating inland...
This new invasion currency is not the same as "spearhead" bank notes, so called because they were first used in North Africa to pay the U.S. troops which formed the "spearhead" of invading forces. Similar to ordinary U.S. dollars (except for a gold instead of a blue seal), spearhead money is backed by the U.S. Treasury, is negotiable in the U.S., is permanent money by all currency laws. On the other hand, invasion money is not intended to be permanent in Sicily (or any other country where it may later be used). It is only a kind of monetary crutch...
...tactics are to surround the Jap bases in overwhelming force and in combined operation to squeeze the life out of them. Though the capture of Munda was somewhat behind schedule, the Japs were left no secondary retreats, would soon be cleaned up. Gen eral Vandegrift, with his spearhead of Amphibious Marines, looked forward to future operations conducted by "all of us, a highly cooperative team...
...allowed to stay out. they will in due course bring the bulk of the U.S. war machine to a grinding stop by cutting off two-thirds" of the nation's electric power, stopping most of its railroads and steel mills. And if they win, they will spearhead the forces that may smash the President's Maginot Line against inflation...
...Flying Spearhead. The Cudahy-to-Grant deal reveals Will Grant's secret. Last year he decided that Cudahy's lush Old Dutch Cleanser business (handled by Blackett-Sample-Hummert) was fair game. He called in all his employes for a session on what was good or bad about Old Dutch-and other-cleansers. Then he got some of his research staff (the mail-room girls look like Powers models) licensed to sell Dutch Cleanser from door to door, taking notes while housewives scrubbed. He set others to scrubbing every bathtub in the 450-room Knickerbocker Hotel, even...