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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ramp seized near Rouen was simply a pair of rails 200 feet long and mounted 12 feet apart on ties. The mayor of Rouen said that a high proportion of the robombs launched in that area had been wasted, that three out of four flopped in France without even reaching the Channel. No less than 26, he said, had exploded on one 40-acre French farm. Many firing crews were said to have been injured or killed at the launching installations. At Arras, Frenchmen said they had been offered 1,000 francs a day to help with the dangerous firing...
Canadian artillery had been ranged on the road for days. Now it opened up on the road with flaming fury. The first salvos tore the column apart, littered the fields with twisted guns, tanks, the dresses, coats, blankets and chinaware the Germans had pilfered...
...regular season. Tommy Donovan's high-flying Beavers last week took the biggest dive since the Washington Redskins of 1940, as the Browns roared by them into first place on the crest of a five game winning streak. After beating the Dodgers 6 to 3 Wednesday, the Beavers fell apart at the seams Thursday when the Browns clubbed them 19-2, and then on Friday they were the victims of Keith Miller's three-hit pitching as the Tigers, finding a sudden power at the plate, won 14 to 0. Other games in a busy week saw the Tigers...
Standing loftily apart from the professional revival is the United States Golf Association, conservative sponsor of the U.S. Open, the U.S. Amateur. Chicago's May boasts that after the war he will destroy tournament golf U.S.G.A.-style, with its $3.30 admission prices and its stringent definition of amateurism. Meanwhile amateurs are already stirring on their own account: in the Midwest, club tournaments have increased 100% over 1943, in New England nearly...
...Cross agent, who interviewed the General in Formosa "some time within the last three months," reported through a screen of Japanese censorship that "Skinny" Wainwright and other high-ranking officers were confined in a camp apart from other prisoners, got the same rice-and-fish diet as all prisoners of war. Wainwright's only reported comment was that conditions were "as good as can be reasonably expected...