Word: springboarded
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...Americal Division smashed their way onto Ticao and Burias Islands in the Sibuyan Sea, to build a springboard for an eventual jump against the Japanese penned up in Luzon's Bicol Peninsula...
...Czechoslovakia. But his grip on the Oder was a strategic threat. Linked with Zhukov's advance, it could be forged into the familiar pattern of Red Army bridgeheads established in force far from the ultimate objective. Thus the Sandomierz grip on the upper Vistula had been the springboard for the present offensive. Thus the crossing of the Danube far south in Yugoslavia had brought the toppling of Budapest. So the Oder-the last wide ditch before Berlin-might be enveloped in preparation for Zhukov's frontal assault...
...scrap prices on major grades last week fell as much as $1.50 a ton below the ceilings for the first time since April 1941. Scrap dealers had been permitted to charge $1 over the ceilings to even up shipping costs from different parts of the U.S. Last week this "springboard" was disappearing fast...
...miles to the west, killed 15,000 Germans in three days. Before it lay an objective the Red command would love dearly to regain: Zhitomir, which Vatutin captured last November, lost to the Germans six days later. In Russian hands, Zhitomir as well as Vitebsk could well become a springboard for a jump onto the eastern ramparts of the once great Reich...
Cleveland's mayoralty is a good springboard: Newton D. Baker became Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of War; Republican Mayor Harold Burton, Lausche's predecessor, is a rising U.S. Senator. More than Ohioans will watch Frank Lausche...