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Then they seemed to stall in mud and German resistance. But eastward a new threat developed. The Russians broke across the middle Tisa south of Miskolc, piled northwestward in a drive that might leave Budapest cut off far in the rear...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (SOUTH): New Vistas | 11/20/1944 | See Source »

...Germans tried to stall the widening northward advance of the British Second Army. The British held...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF GERMANY (West): Again the Offensive | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

...State, under the direction of Salton-stall, who shows great interest in the work of the committee, has already drawn up enough plans to create employment for thousands, and several of the leading cities of Massachusetts have followed suit with their own ideas for establishing public works without wait- ing for federal grants...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: M.T. COPELAND URGES POST-WAR PREPARATION | 9/22/1944 | See Source »

Dreary Epilogue? Were Nazi babblings of "peace terms" and "withdrawal" a smokescreen?-another desperate stall for time? One thing was certain. Hitler & Co. were still on top, arid so long as they stayed on top there could be no peace. Heinrich Himmler was preparing a fanatical home army to fight the final battle between the Oder and the Rhine, and to fight on as guerrillas after the last battle was lost. The Allies, east and west, needed to get into Germany as soon as possible, to upset these preparations before they became effective. Otherwise the war might drag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts, THE WAR: We Must Be Prepared | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

Killed In Action. Marine Corps Sergeant Peter Brook Saltonstall, 23, son of Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Salton stall; while leading a patrol in the jungles of northern Guam. Peter raised his father's share of his Marine Corps pay from $25 to $50 last year. The day after he got the news of Peter's death, Governor Salton stall spoke at a Boston memorial service for Marine Aviator Lieut. Robert M. Hanson, winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 28, 1944 | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

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