Word: surginger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The Christmas rush was running like a payday crap game. By Thanksgiving Day, the traditional opening date for Christmas shoppers, hundreds of counters already had that picked-over look. Now, every day, from the halls of Bullock's-Wilshire to the floors of Marshall Field's, surging regiments...
Oil, Metal and Men. Oil and metals were running short in Germany. The Nazi Air Force and Army were reported squabbling for the available supply, even in such critical areas as the surging Normandy front. Chromium and manganese were desperately short, the nickel from tottering Finland might soon be lost...
Past with a Present. Some $14 billion in war contracts are surging around in New England, thrusting the old land into one wave of prosperity after another. In the nationwide spread of the war bonanza, other regions may make more noise: the colossal doings of California's giant air...
There followed days of shame for Austrians. Thousands joined the Germans in surging mobs, shouting, smashing windows, burning books, beating Jews. In the German Tourist Office stood a portrait of the Führer, lit by candles. Thousands of delirious worshippers filed by while other thousands stood back in silent...
Inside Italy the news produced consternation. Where a month earlier the news of armistice and an end to fighting brought smiles, flowers, wet and fervent masculine kisses for embarrassed Allied soldiers, now there were stricken faces and listless shrugs. Around Allied camps, surging crowds begged for food and cigarets. Each...