Word: barringer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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By midafternoon one company had worked its way ahead through a field and come in sight of its immediate objective. It was a long concrete fort, ringed with mines and dominating a ridge barring the way to Cherbourg. There the battalion used time and metal to save men. Instead of...
The break in the drought was caused by a sudden improvement in the industrial-alcohol supply. For months, WPB has gloomily predicted that the U.S. would fail by some 20,000,000 gallons to meet this year's requirements. The reason: the synthetic-rubber program was swallowing far more...
Three More Months. Barring unexpected catastrophes of battle, the war peak will be reached in three more months, stay on a plateau for a little while, then start downward. Some war items may even be stepped up (e.g., tank production, only a trickle for months, was ordered into high gear...
Their faces were daubed with red, black, green and white war paint, their heads shorn except for a scalp lock. They squatted and waited before an incongruous background : a flying field in the smiling English hills. There were 13 men in this unique parachute unit - twelve Apaches, Mohaves, Navahos, Creeks...
By week's end, with Twentieth Century stock up to 24½, Skouras could already count on a small paper profit, barring unforeseen legal complications, if he took up his option. As far as Twentieth Century was concerned, this was all to the good. Said one official: "The company...