military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) (03/01/90)
From: military@att.att.com (Bill Thacker) Thursday, 29 February, 1940 The Soviet forces in Karelia break through the final zone of the Mannerheim line and press toward Viipuri. The French government acts to curb inflation, implementing measures including a price freeze, more severe food rationing, gas rationing, and female labor. British aviators fly reconnaissance missions over Berlin, Hamburg, Kiel, and Cuxhaven. British Minister of Food William S. Morrison announces that, in order to preserve cereal grains for animal feed, production of hard liquors will be limited to one third the current level. Sugar for beer brewing will be cut to 70% of the current amount. -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Bill Thacker military@cbnews.att.com Send submissions for "50 Years Ago" to military-request@att.att.com "In the last war the torpedo put Britain's naval power on the defensive. In this it is the challenge of the air arm." - Admiral William Pratt, USN retired, in Newsweek