Word: chunks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...decisive sea battles of history was fought last week in the placid waters between Java and Borneo. It was the naval battle for Java. It was a battle for the last bulwark against Japanese conquest of the Indies, a battle for the Southwest Pacific, a battle for a great chunk of the world's seas and sea power. It was a battle fought too late and in the wrong place, lost before it began...
Another large chunk of the University's student body and Faculty will register under the provisions of the Selective Service and Training Act on Sunday and Monday, February 15 and 16, when the nation signs up its third batch of potential draftees. Memorial Hall, scene of the past two draft registrations, will again be the focal point for University men concerned...
Since Army & Navy are taking a huge chunk of all farmers' produce, Messrs. Roosevelt & Wickard had a pretty big price stick after all. A disgusted Congress could still vote more farm subsidies and dare the President to veto them. But as House Banking Committee Chairman Henry B. Steagall ruefully put it, "there's nothing in the bill that can repeal the right of free speech"-and a Roosevelt crack is still good for a break in the market...
However the bombings helped shipping to Africa, it was too late to help one big chunk of Rommel's Army. Last week, 5,500 Axis troops in the narrow canyon of Halfâya Pass, isolated in a bomb-torn pocket on the eastern edge of the desert battlefield, gave up. Dusty, thirsty, hungry and 2,200 miles from their main body, they ran up the white flag, surrendered unconditionally to Major General Pierre de Viller's South African and Free French forces...
...started in 1898 by Edward Kearney and Theodore Trecker, two smart machinists who were tired of sweating for other people. Their first job: repairing a baby carriage. Later they specialized on that most versatile of machine tools, the milling machine. The milling machine, holding a chunk of metal in a movable bed, works on three sides of it at once with as many as eight multi-toothed rotating cutters. First big break for K. & T. was the auto industry's need for highly finished flat or grooved surfaces-the kind of work millers do best...