Word: closed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There were other improvements over the rude camp life of World War II. Food was better, mud and duckboards were missing, and television sets, golf courses and swimming pools were close at hand. But many an old soldier, eyeing the young inductees, had an idea that they would soon find themselves in the Same Old Army anyhow...
...square city hug the slope of a mountain range sprinkled with pillboxes held by the Communists. Marshal Yen's forces hold a line past the first group of hills to the west, where Taiyuan's rich coal and iron resources are mined. From positions as close as two miles from the walls the Reds can plunk artillery shells into the city and blanket two good airfields to the south and one to the north. The new airstrip, hastily carved out of dirt road this week, is across the Fen River, three miles west of the city...
...Crutches. The flat valley land on both sides of the road into Taiyuan was a forest of pillboxes of every shape and size imaginable to military ingenuity. While soldiers piled bricks to build more pillboxes, brown-skinned Shansi farmers worked unperturbed in patches of cabbage, surprisingly still green. Nestled close to the road itself was a rabbit warren of trenches. The road was clogged with a procession of laden camels, donkey carts, peasants carrying baskets on shoulder poles and others pushing crude barrows...
...Drew Pearson's day-after-election column: "I surveyed the close-knit group around Tom Dewey, who will take over the White House 79 days from now. Here is the line...
...years past Brown has consistently fielded one of the poorer major New England soccer teams. But when the Varsity booters meet this year's Bruins at 12 noon on the Business School Field, they will expect a close game. Brown is an improved team...