Word: swoops
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finance Committee, headed by General Foods Vice President William M. Robbins, whom he took away from a $1-a-year WPB job. Handsome William Robbins, 41, who specialized in sales before he went to Washington, has the world's biggest selling job on his hands now: in one swoop he must raise 56 times as much money as big General Foods took in during...
Giant Lancasters, attacking the northern industrial heart of Italy, left "colossal" fires blazing at Turin and made their first swoop over Mussolini's naval base at La Spezia. R.A.F. bombers by night, U.S. Flying Fortresses and Liberators by day, flew over western Europe. They gave Hamburg its 95th plastering. They roared through the valley of the Ruhr. They swarmed over the U-boat base at Lorient, where ten acres of the naval arsenal have now been reported destroyed. Apparently unable to pierce the eleven-foot roofs of the concrete sub pens, the Allied bombers have concentrated on softer targets...
...near Leningrad, is killed by a Nazi bullet in front of the camera. Then a plane, trailing black smoke, crashes to earth. With the terrible veracity of death the film ranges the long battlefront: a Soviet submarine sights a ship through its periscope and torpedoes her; Soviet ski troops swoop down a hill under fire and some fall. A company of guerrillas storm a village. When the battle ends, they angrily execute a captured traitor...
...There were few heavy trucks to carry supplies. (Rommel had used 50,000 trucks in his advance on El Alamein.) There was little material for repairing and maintaining airfields. These things had been sacrificed to make room for men and the arms they could carry. The intention was to swoop into Tunis and Bizerte and seize them before the Axis could get set for a defense...
...that every part of a tank or gun or airplane will be assured of the same preferred position in the disbursement of scarce materials. Moreover, if changes in military strategy dictate a change in any armament program, a cutback or an increase can be applied with one fell swoop to an entire program...