Word: beach
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan called for an attack from the beach. Our outfit, led by the first unit, was to shove north three miles and cut the highway west of Cisterna. On the extreme right flank another outfit was to cut No. 7 east of town. Still another was to barrelhouse straight up the middle and take the town itself...
...Percy Glen Winnett, Bullock's rapidly expanded into that burgeoning city's biggest retail business. It now encompasses: 1) "Bullock's Downtown," a 740,000-sq. ft., six-building, quality department store; 2) "Bullock's Wilshire," "Bullock's Westwood" and "Bullock's Palm Beach Springs," which do a damn-the-price clothing business comparable to Magnin...
...Kuroki may have been the first person of Japanese descent to watch the Pacific surf curl on the beach at Santa Monica since the great evacuation of Japanese from California after Pearl Harbor. He was there last week, with several hundred other battle-weary U.S. airmen, resting in the luxury of the former Edgewater Beach Club, now an Air Forces redistribution center. Like his comrades, he slept late, guzzled orange juice and fresh milk, tried to unwind and get toned...
Even in the landings below Rome, where surprise of classic proportions was achieved, a few Allied casualties were suffered as the mechanical sentinels planted along the beach edge exploded under the weight of boats, vehicles...
...squiggle was only one quiver on the seismograph of the labor earthquake shaking the Douglas empire last week. Other contracts were in the offing. In the huge Douglas Long Beach plant, 84% of the 23,000 employes voted in an NLRB election for representation by either the U.A.W. or the A.F. of L. Machinists. As neither received a majority, a run-off election will be held this week (U.A.W. is expected to win). Another NLRB election will be held in the Santa Monica plant, biggest in the empire, for 34,000 eligible workers. This one is not in the union...