Word: apartment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Again. On the surface, WPB seemed to be falling apart. Don Nelson got back just in time to receive the resignations of three top assistants. Tough, hard-driving WPB Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson, TIME, NOVEMBER 22, 1943 who has been slashing away at politics, bureaucracy and Army red tape for 14 months, was planning to go back to his $175,000-a-year job as president of General Electric. Well aware that production of planes, rubber, radio and trucks still lags, Charlie Wilson also knew that he had successfully pulled U.S. production through. Said...
...depending on the other for the upholding of a flank. The last time I was up at the front, four days ago, I saw a little pile of dead by the roadside, six Tommies, four Yanks. There was an argument as to whether they should be buried together or apart. A U.S. colonel settled the thing with 'Hell, bury them together. They fought together and they died from the same shell...
...Feet apart, bend your knees and rest your weight on the balls of your feet...
Food. Civilians scrambled madly for scraps tossed from trains by homebound prisoners. Nazi guards sometimes begged for contents of Red Cross parcels from home. Apart from such gifts, prisoners thought that they fared about as Germans did. British Private Richard Welsh of Yorkshire gave the most telling account: "A lot of us suffered from dysentery and stomach trouble owing to the poor food. Ersatz coffee tasted like burnt wood. We were given mint tea which was generally used for shaving. . . . We were given 'tub fat' which was like axle grease, to put on our bread." Private Alexander Mitchell...
...Schumann then felt he had the formula for Table Mountain. He proposes to erect on the mountaintop two parallel fences of fine wire netting, a foot apart, with an electric potential of 50,000 to 100,000 volts between them. He thinks that these wire screens, about 150 ft. high and 9,000 ft. long, will precipitate from the cloud at least 31,000,000 gallons daily. Since the cloud is constantly renewed, winter & summer, he believes it would give Capetown a year-round water supply...