Word: batch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Basque of tennis fame, bounded down a Tirolese road, accompanied by a bribed German guard and romped into the ranks of an American battalion. A few moments later he and the Americans raced up the Alpine road again to picturesque Itter Castle. There, waiting to be liberated, was a batch of Hitler's most prized captives. Near the Brenner Pass and in southern Germany U.S. troops released others. Some of the freed...
...chance to get into shipbuilding with a splash. In 1939 he formed the subsidiary Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp., and spent some $500,000 for a yard at Pascagoula. It was a good investment. He landed a $10 million contract for four C-3 type freighters. The first of the batch, the Exchequer for the American Export Lines, was the largest all-welded merchant ship ever built in the U.S. When war came Pascagoula got all the business it could handle...
...Soldier's Voice. Senator Vandenberg announced that, in formulating his plans for San Francisco, he would give top priority to the opinions of U.S. fighting men. He said he had already received a large batch of G.I. mail. He summed up the soldiers' opinions: "They are for an international organization, with the U.S. participating. But they very definitely do not want an international sucker made out of Uncle Sam. They want us to negotiate with our eyes open...
Ever since the first batch of Canadian Zombies (home-defense draftees) was ordered overseas at year's end, Canada had waited to see how they would perform as fighters. Last week the first definite word came that Zombies were in combat -and the news was good...
...swiftest armor strokes. Behind their tanks the infantry mopped up thousands of prisoners from shredded German divisions. Among them was a befuddled German general. Out of touch with his troops, he had stood on a knoll looking for some sign of them. Finally his binoculars found a large batch of Germans. He hurried over to find that they-and he-were prisoners...