Word: blows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Military Strategy. "Any campaign Mountbatten leads from India cannot be a decisive blow at the Japs [and] can hardly get more decisive results than MacArthur's present campaign. . . . It's as clear as crystal that the great blow must come far nearer to the Japanese islands...
...main-exit door. Seconds later, a black lump came hurtling through the formation, barely missing several propellers. It was a man, clasping his knees to his head, revolving like a diver in a triple somersault, shooting by us so close that I saw a piece of paper blow out of his leather jacket. He was evidently making a delayed jump. . . . A B-17 turned gradually out of the formation to the right, maintaining altitude. In a split second it completely vanished in a brilliant explosion, from which the only remains were four balls of fire, the fuel tanks, which were...
...nearest big Allied establishment at Munda. It bypassed important Japanese positions at Buin on the southernmost tip of Bougainville, and in the Shortland Islands, 30 miles south of Buin. In those positions there were estimated to be at least 20,000 Japanese. But the real importances of the Bougainville blow were two: 1) it was a necessary preliminary to a necessity-the taking of Rabaul; and 2) it goaded the Japanese into risking serious naval and aerial attrition...
Nisbet's machine is designed not only to blow the bugs down but to bag them for good. A big fan hooked to the front of a tractor blows through a pair of pipes (one toward the cotton row on each side). The bugs blasted off the plants are caught in funnels and sacks also carried by the tractor. With this simple device Nisbet removes from a single acre of cotton hundreds of pounds of boll weevils, bollworms, hoppers, leaf worms and other insects. The machine works as well on potato plants as on cotton. Nisbet builds his blowers...
...Alex R. Nisbet, 83, a spry, glittering-eyed, retired cotton planter who for the past few years has been tinkering around a machine shop in Plainview, Tex. The Department of Agriculture in Washington hao never heard of him, but farmers in his neighborhood have gathered that he proposes to blow the weevils off the cotton. Last week he was ready to talk...