The USAAF would end up inflicting punishing losses on the Luftwaffe in the air, disrupting the manufacturing of new aircraft, and eventually causing chronic fuel shortages that severely limited their ability to conduct large scale operations of any kind. In this, the P-51 would prove essential wi...
During an air raid, everyone in the hotel seeks shelter in the basement. There, amidst the rubble from the previous air raid, a Nazi lieutenant (Peter van Eyck) discovers the corpse of the real Paul Davos. From the officer’s close questioning, Bramble realizes he is about to be killed ...
b. during the transaction; immediately: to pay cash on the line. 9. out of line, a. not in a straight line. b. disrespectful; presumptuous. [before 1000; Middle English li(g)ne, partly < Old French ligne (< Latin līnea, orig. n. use of feminine of līneus flaxen <līn(um...
And a strong and stable global economy was seen as essential for a strong US economy. The US economy is, obviously, the largest in the world. It is broad and diverse, and can provide many of its own needs—energy and food—domestically. But even the US economy is not an island. Time...
Under Xi, the country has carried out large-scale, live-fire missile strikes around the Taiwanese coast, simulating a maritime and air blockade of the island… Xi has [also] intensified China’s border conflict with India… and embraced a new policy of economic and trade coercion against ...
Ditto cheap air travel, container shipping, the universal electric grid. All of these were enormous engines of prosperity that brought with them unintended consequences that only came to light over many decades of painful experience, by which time any solution seems impossible to attempt bec...
of his death in 2011 has a fierce snow storm pause and the sky glow red. His word was final, and any deviation was considered as a sign of disloyalty. After his death, he was proclaimed Dae Wonsu (a title only afforded by Jung-un’s grandfather, and which means Grand Marshal). ...
areas. Since then the defences of the conquered countries have changedconsiderably5. From Kirkenes to the Spanish Frontier there is a belt of great bases and fortifications; manyairfields6have been built,naval7bases with protection for submarines, which are practically invulnerable from sea or air....
In the battle of ___ , German forces threatening to seize Egypt and the Suez Canal were defeated by the British, who stopped Germany’s Field Marshal Rommel 200 miles from Suez El Alamein in 1942 On ___ , June 6, 1944, American and Allied troops landed in German-occupied France, ...
Trail City's claim to fame was a bar that was surveyed with its east side in Kansas and its west side into Colorado. If you got into trouble on either side and jumped over the line, the Marshal on that side could not follow you into the other. There used to be some foundations left...