Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time when every Russian private could join with Adolf Hitler in yearning for news about the when & how of a second front, all that came out of Britain last week were portentous hints of great things afoot...
...facilities of the Rhine and the Danube. He came home to work on rivers and harbors for a while and go to Army finishing schools. He went back in 1933 to do an economic survey of Turkey for Kamâl Atatürk, stomping much of the country afoot. Dictating eight hours a day for three months, he reduced his findings to a tidy seven volumes. As a result he knows as much about the Army's transportation and supply problems in the Near East...
Worst housing shortage is at Detroit. With Ford's Willow Run bomber plant nearly ready for 70,000 workers, there are virtually no houses near the plant and it is almost impossible to rent a house in Detroit, 25 miles away. Now plans are afoot for 45,000 new dwellings in the Detroit area but pipe for water lines is still lacking. And by year's end Detroit must house 190,000 more war workers...
...Also afoot are plans to take busses off scenic runs, give them to cities which have no streetcars, rip out seats to make crowded room for standees...
Riding Thai war elephants, slithering through the upland jungles afoot, backed up by slit-eyed little Siamese soldiers from feckless Thailand, the invaders swarmed through the mountain passes on the Thailand-Burma border. They struck directly at Moulmein, about 170 miles east of Rangoon by the railroad around the Gulf of Martaban. Every Briton, every Colonial in the force that backed up before his advance knew what the enemy was after...