Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Disaster at the Rock. The 250-mile-long southern front now ran across a fertile, oil-soaked chunk of Rumania and then wandered to the northwest along the Carpathians. On the wrong side of this front, isolated clusters of German troops continued to fight. Moscow reported that five Nazi divisions had been destroyed above Odessa. At Tarnopol the embattled garrison was being whittled down. In the forests near Skala ("Rock") on the middle Dniester, Red units battled the detachments of 15 Nazi divisions...
Shore-based personnel in the U.S. and in scores of far-flung bases accounts for another big chunk of Navy strength, the Marines total over 400,000 and the number of men actually afloat in warcraft is more than...
Whether the field turns out to be oil or nothing, 69-year-old Farmer Cottingham is sitting pretty. With his own 390 acres, plus his two daughters' 320, he has royalty rights to a rich chunk of the Carter leasehold. Last week, in overalls and rubber boots, Farmer Cottingham phlegmatically cleared ground for more corn and cotton. But the gossips in Oklahoma City whispered that he had already been offered $10,000 for the royalty rights to a mere ten of his 710 acres...
...lordship (a Roman Catholic) was in Canada on wartime business for the Knights of Columbus. Looking at Nova Scotia had given him his great idea. He would purchase a chunk of provincial acreage, after war's end transplant Scots from his own bleak estate. A new link between old and new Scotland would be forged, his hereditary holdings would in a sense be reclaimed, everyone would be happy...
Navy Lieut. Alfred GwynneVanderbilt, 31-year-old turfman turned South Pacific PT-boat skipper, was photographed with his 29-year-old brother George (also a lieutenant) at an advanced base in New Guinea (see cut). Apparently greasemonkeys to a considerable chunk of naval equipment, the descendants of the fabulous, family-founding skipper of the Staten Island ferry betrayed their rank only by their officer-like mustaches...