Word: arsenal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...exception to the Nationalist strategy of evacuation was Mukden (see map), site of the best arsenal in all China. Twice in the last fortnight Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek had flown north to confer with General Wei Li-huang, Mukden's commander, and stir him to a more active defense. As the garrison from starving Changchun hacked southward to join the Mukden forces, Wei's columns drove down to retake the port of Yingkow, reopening Mukden to direct sea supply. More of Wei's troops thrust west to relieve Chinhsien...
They met in Ohio's gloomy, overcrowded Mansfield Reformatory. After they were paroled, they joined forces, accumulated an arsenal and stole a 1947 Pontiac...
Born with Control. Playing summers in the U.S. and winters in Central and South America, Satchel Paige earned $36,000 one year, and spent it in handfuls (he has a white Lincoln, a red Cadillac, a red jeep, a pallid station wagon and an arsenal of over 20 shotguns). Lately he has pitched only in three-to five-inning stints. Some of Satchel's speed is gone, but not his control ("I was born with control...
Joseph Untermeyer, 19, adopted son of relentless Punster* and Anthologist Louis, was cleared of illegal possession of firearms. Arrested a month ago in a Manhattan loft building that held a small arsenal, he explained that he was just wrapping bundles of food and clothing for Palestine, didn't know anything about the arms. The court believed...
Something new has been added to the U.S. atomic arsenal. This week the White House gave out a sketchy, cautious report by the Atomic Energy Commission on its tests last month at the Marshall Islands proving grounds (TIME, April 26). Not one but three atomic weapons-"of improved design"-were proved "successful in all respects." AEChairman David Lilienthal said the tests were "a milestone in atomic development...