Word: swoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Schedules. At war's end, if all U.S. plane contracts are canceled at one swoop, Grumman will have no choice but to "shut the doors" until he can find a market. But this contingency is remote. Grumman, with no cutbacks in the offing, this week goes back on a six-day week because of slightly increased schedules. And the shock of the end of the European war may be cushioned. The Navy may shift the bulk of plane contracts back to the old-line planemakers so that the automakers, et al., can get back to peacetime products...
Everywhere French patriot armies were rising, to fight the invader in his rear, to help Allied air fleets paralyze his movements. General Brereton's airborne army of 250,000 men was still a hovering menace that might swoop to cut any line of retreat anywhere. It could be used to speed the juncture of the Seventh Army in Provence with the forces before Paris. It might be dropped beyond Paris to slash the German escape route-or be set down in Germany beyond the Belfort Gap to speed an advance into Germany at the Swiss-border hinge...
...MacArthur's unexpected swoop into the Admiralty Islands last week tightened a noose around the Bismarck Archipelago (see map), attention was fixed on a Jap-held prize on the northern tip of New Britain. Rabaul, a great naval and air base, only 830 miles from Truk, may be MacArthur's next target...
Across the bleak barrens of prewar eastern Poland armies surged last week, as they have for 1,000 years. The stolid peasants who saw the Red Army drive bewildered Germans back are descendants of patient men who have straightened up to watch fire & sword swoop by for 30 generations...
...savage swoop on two Allied convoys in the North Atlantic signaled the return of Germany's wolf packs with new tactics, new weapons. The battle of supply, temporarily won by the Allies, was on again in full fury...