Word: strip
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caucasus the story was the same. Two swift Russian smashes wedged some 200,000 Germans under Field Marshal Siegmund Wilhelm Walther List into a narrow strip along the Black Sea and Sea of Azov north of Novorossiisk. At week's end the Russians said that, by taking Yeisk on the Sea of Azov, they had closed the Germans' last channels of escape via Rostov. There were reports of the Red Fleet's harrying boatloads of Germans fleeing across the narrow (3 mi.) Kerch Straits to the Axis-held Crimea. The most the Nazis could hope...
...question rose to plague the U.S. last week. The speed with which the draft will soon strip the nation of its young men was now apparent (see above). The manpower pinch was already sorely felt by factory and farms; food rationing was destined to grow stricter by the month...
...newspaper version of Terry and the Pirates (TIME, Jan. 18) collided head on with Caniff's civilian newspaper version, which is sold to civilian publishers by the Chicago Tribune-New York News Syndicate on an exclusive contract basis. The solution: Caniff, beginning last week, draws a lusty, weekly strip for Army newspapers but calls it Male Call, gives his characters names not used in the regular Terry strip. To replace Terry's beautiful, bosomy Burma, there will be a dark, Orientalish, bosomy Caniff gal who will cavort in usual Burma fashion, wisecrack as lustily as the Army-version...
...CATCH ME-Richard Powell-Simon & Schuster ($2). Two sets of villains, one Hitlerite, the other indigenous, join forces in this effervescent, farcical tale to strip a Philadelphia museum of its furniture collection. A young Main Line antique dealer and his bride spoil the robbery...
...Hard Way. Meanwhile, more of Kenney's planes were dropping troops on an emergency strip at Wanigepi, on the coast of southeast Buna. As the troops moved toward Buna, Kenney had to find new strips for his supply planes. He found them by sending light planes to drag the coast for level ground. Sometimes it was pocked with palms, sometimes wing-deep in grass. The first pilot to land would squirm to a semi-crash landing. When the ear-ringed natives gathered round, he spread his wares-cowrie shells and tobacco sticks-and bargained to have trees and grass...