Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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White made both passenger cars and trucks until the end of the War. The War brought it big orders and a reputation for performance. In the Battle of Verdun the only White trucks to break down were those disabled by shells. 'The result was that 2,500 of them received the distinction of France's Croix de Guerre. Geared to truck production, White decided to specialize in it after the War, just as Packard decided to specialize in passenger cars. The White line is now complete, from light city delivery wagons to heavy duty trucks, patrol cars, armored cars, busses...
...Paris. Under date of Sept. 25, 1914 this entry in the diary continues: "General Headquar- ters' instructions [i. e. Joffre's] dated Sept. 2 orders the [French] armies to retreat to the Seine and the withdrawal of two army corps from Nancy. Thus, evacuation of Nancy and Verdun. "General de Castelnau disobeys orders, resists on the Grand Couronne, saves Nancy. General Sarrail gives battle before Verdun despite orders to retreat. He saves Verdun. I take the offensive [with taxicabsj before Paris while General Headquarters are removed far to the rear at Chatillon. These were actions independent...
...China's "Verdun," (with which Father Jacquinot had nothing to do), consisted last week of the heroic defense of the Woosung Forts, 16 miles from Shanghai proper. But there were altogether too many mysteries in connection with China's "Verdun"'?Oriental mysteries...
...Cantonese, had been worsted last month by the intrigues of General Chiang (TIME, Feb. i), but "China's Verdun" magically restored Cantonese Sun's prestige and the prestige of his "Cantonese Government." General Chiang, once a sensational leader of armies but now a practicer of nonresistance toward Japan, suddenly found himself forced to "approve" the resistance currently being made. But General Chiang, while advocating resistance at Shanghai, rumored that he would move (flee) with what he called "my Government" to Peiping. Four years ago as Conqueror-of-all-China, he changed that city's name from Peking (meaning "Northern Capital...
...Names make news." Last week these names made this news: In a speech to promote funds for Edinburgh Royal Infirmary Sir James Matthew Barrie told of a hospital which he conducted near Verdun during the War for wounded French children: ". . . The eldest was not more than ten, and many of them were almost babes. On the very first night when the children were asleep part, of the ceiling fell. A nurse ran into the room wondering why she had not heard the children screaming and thinking it was a bomb. When she opened the door she found those eight little...