Word: clue
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...difficulties of landing food, fuel and equipment from ships lying in the rough-water anchorages of the Bay of the Seine gave the first clue that the invasion was running behind schedule. The second was in the slow deepening of the bridgehead: an average of barely three miles a day. So it was that soldiers, who had ap proved General Eisenhower's gamble on the weather, retreated from their first optimistic judgments of the invasion,, which were based on the relative ease with which all but one of the scheduled landings were accomplished, the low casualties, the slow ness...
...clue that invasion might be near was in the office of Lieut. General Brehon Somervell, chief of the Army Service Forces. His orders had been to procure and ship more than 100,000 items needed for the Army's pre-invasion stockpile, from shoelaces to tanks. By last week all but 79 of the items were stockpiled where they belonged. The rest were on the way and the mad supply rush was easing...
...total, OSRD is an enormous enterprise, spending about $135,000,000 a year. To date it has contracted for more than 2,000 investigations, completed 564, produced well over 200 new devices. The only official clue to what OSRD is doing is in the titles of its 18 divisions: e.g., radar, subsurface warfare, radio, explosives, new missiles, "special projectiles" (perhaps rockets), fire control. Of these, far & away the biggest is radar ($30,000,000). Second: subsurface warfare...
...Would the U.S. now get tough as it had with neutral Spain, and join Britain in economic sanctions? Or would the President and the State Department, unable to prove a single case of Axis espionage in Eire, be content with having put themselves on record? One clue: around the State Department, keenly conscious of the big U.S. Irish vote, the worried word about Eire last week was: "How do you think the U.S. will react...
Pathologists could find no clue to the disease; there seemed to be nothing wrong with the fish anatomically (a diseased fish usually shows ruptures or lesions). Said Dr. Van Oosten: "I am completely at a loss. The fish died regardless of sex, age, size, spawning condition or anything else." Last week Dr. Van Oosten hastened to Crystal Lake, where the smelts still seemed healthy, to fish and analyze further...