Word: clues
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hurry to attack. He had had to bring up supplies across the 700 miles of desert which Rommel had already covered in his retreat from El Alamein. Until he was ready, he had kept Rommel in a state of nervousness with jabs of armored cars and tanks. First clue to his readiness came last week. Heavy artillery began to bellow from behind the British lines. Over the Axis position rolled a cloud of some 300 Allied planes. Infantry advanced. British tanks struck at the inland end of the Axis lines. British forces surged against the northern end. Rommel made scarcely...
...that sounded like the Al Capone days, included gangsters called "Red," "Lefty," "The Mutt" and "Bananas." A Utica ring stole 8,450 "B" and "C" books, peddled them through a long chain of New York City racketeers who kept hijacking them from each other. OPA got its first big clue from frisking a murdered gangster in Queens who had not" had the foresight to remove the cover from the stolen book in his pocket...
...Precipitron came out of "a successful failure" in research, and a hopeful house-cleaning experiment in Pittsburgh. Some six years ago a young research engineer, Gaylord W. Penney (now manager of the electrophysics laboratories), sought a conclusion to German experiments with ionized air, found a clue to cleaner air. With a wire, a couple of aluminum plates and a burning oily rag, he rigged his first crude electrostatic dirt trap. The modern unit is as simple in principle: air entering it travels over fine tungsten wires carrying 12,000 volts which impart a positive charge to passing particles of dust...
Perkins stated that the new order offered no clue as to when members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps would be called into active service, but that unofficial reports from Washington considered postponement of induction until after February optimistic...
...CASE OF THE CARELESS KITTEN- Erie Stanley Gardner - Morrow ($2). Another brisk, shrewdly plotted and forthrightly told Perry Mason story, in which the adroit lawyer-sleuth cooperates with an intelligent and wary police lieutenant. Mason's analysis of feline antics supplies the payoff clue to an elusive killer and a pair of carefully contrived murders...