Word: blasted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marshal Hermann Goring and of Gestapo Chief Heinrich Himmler last week was expected to mean complete German control of military and civilian defenses. Germans realize that successful completion of the Allied invasion of North Africa (see p. 34), if followed by an invasion of Italy, would allow bombers to blast German war plants now out of reach of Britain-based planes. The arc of the Alps could be bypassed by land troops without danger of an Italian flank attack along the historic Balkan route to Germany's back door. Along part of that route Yugoslav partisans last week...
Word has leaked out of grandiose U.S. Government plans to ship idle plants to under-factoried Latin American countries. Already shipped (to Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico): six small textile mills, a blast furnace, a storage battery factory. Some Government enthusiasts were talking rosily of finding as many as 500 plants that U.S. owners would be glad to sell to eager Latin American buyers (no effort is being made to take plants that are not willingly sold), but lack of shipping is apt to limit that sharply. Nonetheless, where a U.S. plant can provide an essential commodity that would otherwise have...
...also probably more prisoners than MacArthur's forces had captured in the entire campaign to blast the Japs out of New Guinea. There last week General MacArthur's Australian and American ground forces moved forward toward the Buna beachhead, yard by yard: the Australians killed 150 Japs in charging one gun position, lost 66 of their own men. The Japanese defenders held an area of only four by ten miles, occupying a position roughly corresponding to that of the U.S. Marines during the worst of Guadalcanal. From concrete strongholds and jungle-covered machine-gun nests the Japs fought...
...stands silent guard in the plants where binoculars, range finders and periscopes are made, in arsenals where ammunition is loaded. It keeps unsullied the polished surfaces of precision gauges, whisks away the stench of welding. Newest use, revealed last week by Westinghouse, is purifying the air for the blast furnaces at a new steel plant, where fumes and grit could quickly erode the high-speed blades of the blowers...
German munition factories are very easy to destroy in Hollywood, since the union only allows them to have one guard at the door. After the plant is in flames however, a few Nazis appear and our heroes blast them to hell with deadly aim. Flynn is able to pick up a woman who leads them to safety...