Word: blanket
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paris Again. All of these infractions have been committed by British. Canadian, Australian, Free Belgian, Polish, Free French and other groups in Britain. The popular habit of bundling such complaints into a blanket indictment of the U.S. fighting man really means that the trouble is something else...
...problem is to get blanket rolls up to the front. A soldier needs three blankets against the cold and rain. But he cannot carry them and fight, too. Usually a platoon, when it moves on, leaves its rolls to be picked up by trucks. But trucks are hard to get, and they have a hard time reaching the platoon by night...
...first successful attempt in history to make rain artificially may be in the offing. From Capetown last week came word of a scheme by Chief Meteorologist Theodor Eberhardt Werner Schumann, South Africa's leading scientist, to convert Table Mountain's famed "cloth," a perpetually present blanket of very moist cloud, into water by means of electricity. Preliminary tests have convinced Dr. Schumann that dry Capetown can extract 31,000,000 gallons of water a day from this ever-present vapor...
Thirteen months ago the 15 nonoperating unions began seeking a blanket 20? an hour raise on the grounds that they were suffering under a "gross inequity" in wages (typical inequity: the average railroad employe gets 84? an hour; a shipyard worker...
...advertises his personality by wearing $32 shirts, lurid handkerchiefs and horse-blanket-striped suits, likes to talk about himself, and knows that every word is money in the bank. He has his fast-growing business, which grossed $3,000,000 last year and his income of $676,000* prove...