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...Valencia was no bomber, but the crew was willing. From a 40-gallon oil drum stuffed with 386 sticks of dynamite, parts of a sewing machine, a motorcar differential and two packets of incendiary bullets, they fashioned their bomb, eventually squeezed it into their crate...
...stuff had gone flashing through those frail wooden walls like buckshot through a berry crate. Some of it had even sliced through the walls and partitions and come out on the far side. The mosquito net above my bed was ripped in a dozen places...
Like his boss, General Montgomery, he was full of toplofty contempt for the Germans. He conceded that some German airmen in the desert were good, but considered most of them "poor stuff . . . incredible hoots." He called the then celebrated Stuka dive bomber an "overrated crate"-which...
Last week officials of the Cherbourg Museum told how the Vichy government insisted that they crate up Cherbourg's art works, provide transportation to take them to Vichyfrance. The Nazis changed the ad dress on the crates-to Germany...
Wrecking crews moved into Gopher, began to crate the well-greased machinery, at a cost of $858,000, for shipment to other plants. Buildings will be left standing for a time. The farmers were moving back to the fertile land. Quipped one, sardonically twisting the boast of plant-sprouting 1942: "You wouldn't believe it, but this cornfield was once a war plant...