Word: counte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gulf began, not one of their surface ships had appeared to dispute Allied control of the sea lanes. Instead, their own cargo carriers and escort craft were being bombed and strafed from Indo-China to the Ryukyus. Admiral William F. Halsey's Third Fleet carriers (16, by enemy count) sent planes up & down the coast and the island chain. They hammered Hong Kong, Swatow, Amoy and Canton in China; Takao on Formosa; Okinawa in the Ryukyus. Primarily, their job was to keep the Japs from flying planes or shipping supplies and reinforcements to Luzon. Also, if an enemy naval...
...things that count, the French are a very practical people. They watched with detached wonder when the U.S. Army laid a gasoline pipeline from the Normandy beachhead to Paris. Then an idea galvanized them into action: if gas can flow through a six-inch pipe, why not wine? Last week Frenchmen laid their own pipeline. Across the practically bridgeless Loire River it will bring wine from southern France to break a drought that has been desiccating Paris and northern France...
While intelligence officers were still compiling the results of these assaults, the Halsey force swung back to the north. A combat air patrol (200 planes, by enemy count) went to work on Formosa. But there were enough planes left to make carrier-aviation history, by swooping down on the China coast to attack Amoy, Swatow and the captive British colony of Hong Kong...
Some 4,000 Allied bombers and fighter escorts, profiting by the weather break to attack oil plants deep in Germany, raised a swarm of Luftwaffe interceptors. At least 232 German fighters were downed, while the first count of Allied losses showed only 45 planes missing...
After a national runny-nose count, the indefatigable Dr. Gallup announced last week that 1) children under ten have nearly twice as many colds as people in their 20s, 2) more farmers (by a handkerchief's breadth) have colds than villagers and cosmopolites, 3) 21,000,000 citizens had colds between...