Word: tensed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Some military experts estimated that the Germans would have on the front 250 divisions-around 5,000,000 men-when the weather opened up, that they would include at least 25 Panzer divisions. The Russians announced that Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov was ready with his spring troops, in "tens of divisions...
This measure is at best hasty and ill-advised. From a short-range viewpoint, it is directly detrimental to the war effort. The training of skilled laborers in NYA schools is undoubtedly a war activity, for without those skills the basic defense industries would be forced to close down. CCC...
It is not that dozens of battleships, scores of cruisers and thousands of planes are needed. . . . It is only a question of hundreds more of planes and a few tens of thousands of men. . . . The reinforcements need not be tremendous, but must come continuously and there must be an end...
The Slaves. There were new recruits for the Nazis' Army of 2,500,000 forced laborers from conquered countries (TIME, Feb. 23). They were Ukrainian miners, ticketed to work in German coalfields, where slowdowns have decreased production. The scant reports from Germany gave no figures, but promised that "tens...
Moscow war correspondents and military observers have come to learn that vaguely worded Soviet communiqués usually herald some startling news. Last week Red Army spokesmen conceded a substantial stiffening in German resistance, continued to weigh Russian gains in terms of scores of villages and "tens of kilometers," were...