Word: toe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Persistent reports reached London last week that German troops were moving through the Tirol, down Italy's shank and off the toe to Sicily, where they were massing. From there it was expected that they would be transported to North Africa either by the hazardous sea route which the Italians use, or by air. London also heard that large parts of the Luftwaffe were destined for the Egyptian campaign, to give the Italian Army an overhead striking superiority something like that which the German Army used in the Polish campaign...
Hudson got a better toe hold in the low-priced field last year, hiked sales 80% against 32% for the industry. Handsome, unobtrusive Abraham Edward Barit, president since 1936, jumped the gun on other manufacturers this year by having 1941 models in showrooms by late July. Result: he sold $22,000,000 worth of cars (1939 sales $58,036,000) in the first three weeks. Hudson sales through mid-September were 127% over a year...
...tanks only half full, B-17s could bomb Berlin. With full tanks they could reach the great armament plants in Prague, mess up the vast new German munitions industries built up in Austria to put them out of the range of British bombers. They could swing down into the toe of Italy's boot, with plenty of gas to get home again. And to bomb Italian establishments in northern Africa they could fly from London to Alexandria, be ready for work as soon as they were serviced...
...last year's strong team were missing. This fact was quite evident in the first quarter with the Tufts squad taking advantage of Harvard's ragged play and doing all of the offensive work. The climax was reached when the Jumbos drew first blood with a score from the toe of Craig Scott in the closing minutes of the period...
...Diomede by only a mile and a half of open water. Its westernmost Pacific Ocean island (Attu) is only 250 miles southeast of Russia's advance submarine base on the Komandorskie Islands, only 696 miles east of Japan's advance base on Paramosmiri Island, off the toe of Kamchatka. An airplane from any of these Asiatic strongholds can cross the international date line and be over U. S. territory in 20 to 24 hours before it takes...