Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Time. But mechanized World War II really put Art Tilt in the big time. Early in 1941 he was turning out thousands of prime movers, wreckers, armored busses and just plain trucks. Now he has enough orders to run full blast for more than a year, has specialized in three main military types: 1) Diamond T-designed six-by-sixes (six cylinders, six driving wheels) used for gun crew carriers, artillery tractors, etc.; 2) hefty half-tracks (built cooperatively with Autocar and White Motor); 3) tank hauler and recovery units, sensational monsters which handle big tanks like toys, have...
When war orders for "Eimac" tubes began to roll in E. & M. still had only 22 employes. Now they have 50 times as many in San Bruno alone, expect to have many times that when their new plant, opened last July, really gets going full blast. By last year they were able to shell out $57,000 for one backer's $2,500 original investment (the other backer, who built E. & M.'s new factory, is still clinging to his paper profits...
...since they've been expecting air raids, they built up a solid wall around it-and now it's like the inside of a tomb. There were two baths for my entire floor, and I had to keep my windows shut because otherwise the full blast of the monsoon slugged the black raindrops all over the room...
...other across a map on which each maneuvers land, sea and air forces over water and land to capture his opponent's Naval Base or Headquarters ("H.Q."). In general, the major pieces destroy the minor ones, which are removed from the board. Planes and destroyers, working in teams, blast open beachheads after fleet actions; troops land and fight through screens of delaying actions that gradually become major land battles. And a player who has lost a battle because he has inadequate reinforcements, or who was brilliantly outmaneuvered by a lesser force, is likely to regard the next...
...MACARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia--The besieged Japanese defense positions in the Buna area of New Guinea are being kept under continous artillery and mortar fire while Allied planes continue to blast them with bombs and bullets the Allied Command announced today...