Word: unite
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...town of Saint-Tropez, with tall pink and ocher houses overlooking the protected bay where in peacetime the British Mediterranean Fleet used to anchor on its annual vacation cruise, was captured by a parachute unit dropped there by mistake. In sun-drenched Hyères, where the girls are dark and Saracen and the streets are lined with palms, the Germans still held. Fréjus, where Julius Caesar planted supplies for Gaul, was taken the first day. Saint-Raphael, a modest fishing village gone garish with the trappings of a modern coast resort, was quickly captured, too. But Cannes...
...next night a group of Negro troops slipped out of their quarters, armed themselves with stones and poured into the barracks where the Italians were asleep. The riot had reached serious proportions before MPs dashed in and broke it up. Twenty six Italians, three U.S. soldiers attached to the unit as interpreters were sent to hospital; the Negro rioters were confined to quarters along with the rest of their unit...
...prewar levels where necessary to allow for increased wage and material costs. (Said Bowles: "In the case of companies which continue to have war business or other civilian business we will also consider ... the general financial position of the firm. . . . We must also take into consideration the decrease in unit costs resulting from technological advances and a high level of output. . . . While some commodities are going to come back into production at higher prices than they went out, not all of them will be higher. The OPA will not set prices which force deflation of general wage levels...
...Bite. In the face of this situation Akron does not chew as much war work as it has bitten off. As tire-making slacked when rubber got scarce, the Big Four grabbed orders for rubber rafts, gas tanks, ammunition, etc. Goodyear even set up its own aircraft unit, now employs 24,000 turning out Corsair fighters and plane parts. This was good business as long as the synthetic rubber program floundered. But now synthetic is pouring in, and Akron is trying to turn out more heavy tires than ever before...
Plane v. Bicycle. Kluge was in a pretty fix. His supply lines had been bomb-ravaged (in three days more than 600 locomotives, nearly 7,000 freight cars had been destroyed). Reinforcements were delayed (one unit bicycled nine days to reach the front...