Word: verdun
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boom is still on. Since the first of the year, 1,200 new industrial firms have been formed in the province. In Montreal alone, where new capital is estimated at $60 million, there are 60 new industries, almost as many new plants. Verdun has 37 new plants within its city limits; once-sleepy towns like St. Tite have doubled in population. Quebec's burgeoning industries today embrace paper, textiles, chemicals, shipbuilding, breweries, tobacco. And Quebeckers are ready to supply the technical skills to run the new industries. In preparation for the new day, the province has steadily increased...
General George S. Patton Jr. became the second American in history (first: General John J. Pershing) to be made an honorary citizen of Verdun. He was also made an honorary citizen of Metz, Reims, Chateau Thierry, Epernay, Toul, Sarreguemines, and the city of Luxembourg...
...Cochin China was cagy, tuberculous Russian-speaking Premier Ho Chin Minh (known a generation ago around the Paris Peace Conference as Nguyen-Ai-Quoc). Followers of Communist Ho Chin Minh insulted and cowed the French in Saigon, tore down the World War I memorial, flung earth from the Verdun battlefield into the Saigon River...
...tumbril but in a Black Maria, Henri Philippe Pétain, 89, hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and chief of the late Vichy Government, rode to one of history's great trials-his own, for high treason. With him rode the France of 1940 to be judged by the France...
Henri Philippe Petain, Hero of Verdun, Marshal of France and Chief of State of Vichyfrance, was home again. It was his 89th birthday. With German permission, through the Swiss Government, the Marshal had offered to surrender himself to the French Government of General Charles de Gaulle and to stand trial for high treason. The offer had been accepted...