Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radio's usefulness on the battlefield may have suggested the idea of its use on an industrial reservation to engineer-managers at the U.S. Army's new, huge (14,735-acre) Elwood shell-loading plant near Joliet, Ill. In 35 guard stations, 19 guard automobiles, five fire stations and five fire-department squad cars, installation of two-way radio communication is complete. The nine diesel-electric locomotives that are beginning to shunt explosives around on Elwood's 100 miles of track needed, since normal AM reception would be impossible for them, a further refinement. First of these...
...George Gordon Lord Byron, "for whom foreign travel had a psychological significance which his traveling compan ions could not long ignore." His com panions: Dr. John ("Polly dolly") Polidori; his "querulous" valet, Fletcher; his sparring partner. Next afternoon they all set off for Switzerland via the year-old battlefield of Waterloo where Byron, an insatiable souvenir hunter, bought some scraps of old iron to send home...
MOSCOW, Wednesday -- Twelve thousand Germans fell on the snow-covered battlefield before Moscow yesterday but still the Germans advanced on the city from the north, west and south, and in an accompanying sweep along the Sea of Azov captured the important port of Maviupol, a communique said today...
After World War I, when the last whiff of smoke was safely blown away, thousands of eager trippers toured the battle fields of France. Last week some of them and their children got a vicarious look at a still-pungent battlefield of World War II -through the eyes of the first U.S. and British correspondents allowed by the Russians to visit the front...
...Signal Corps' one contribution to the Army-Hollywood preview was not a picture, but a sound track writhing with the noise of a modern battlefield. This training film was made for use in Army maneuvers. Its purpose is to simulate the noises made by combat weapons and teach the troops to take...