Word: cleanup
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Damonte was not sure why he was wanted, but he had a pretty good idea. Two weeks ago he was called up for questioning about his investigating committee. His case was clear; he was released. Now the Government was trying another tack: in its current "cleanup" campaign (TIME, Sept. 13), it got around to looking into certain iron deals in which Damonte had participated. If Critica's hard-hitting editor could not be got one way, another way might serve...
...British army in World War II. Bomb-weary, hungry Sicilians stepped from the ruins, with cheers of relief, and cries for bread. For General Montgomery, it was another famous victory. From Catania and Paterno the Eighth thrust columns up the west and east slopes of Mt. Etna for the cleanup in Sicily...
...Cleanup. At week's end on New Georgia only a small Jap detachment at Bai-roko Harbor was still to be done in, but victorious units from Munda moved for ward to help in the job. Army engineers and Navy Seabees prepared to restore the 4,000-ft. Munda airstrip, which would bring the U.S. just within fighter-plane range of Rabaul. Eyes turned to Vila, Munda's supplementary airstrip 17 miles away, huddled against the great cone of Kolombangara. That the Japs were determined to cling to Vila was evident when they once more took the impossible...
...Allied Air Force, in its new A36 fighter-bombers, sprang a particularly nasty surprise on the enemy during the pre-invasion cleanup. An adaptation of the North American Mustang (P-51) the A36 is a 400-mile-an-hour single seater, equipped with dive brakes and wing bomb racks. It functions as a dive or glide bomber or as a low level strafing ship, specializing in such small but worthwhile targets as truck convoys, trains and power stations...
...Duce promised over & over a cleanup of black marketeers, an increase in "fundamental rations-bread, alimentary paste and fats," a closing down of "luxury hotels where certain evacuees often behave scandalously...