Word: depot
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Buzz Off. In Atlanta, a swarm of bees, settled in a packing crate at an ordnance depot, were quickly sold (for $2.05) as surplus property...
...steel held, but the special's wooden cars burst into a knot of wreckage. Shattered gas lights and exploding gas tanks beneath the ancient coaches spread fire the train's length, set two nearby grain elevators ablaze, leaped to an Imperial Oil Co. storage depot where 80 drums of oil took fire. Rescuers saved as many passengers as they could before the flames drove them away...
...Grace. The divine detectives who arrest Joseph K. are brassy louts who eat his breakfast, try to get a rake-off by sending out for his food, try to make off with his shirt and underwear. "Much better give these things to us than hand them over to the depot ... for in the depot there's lots of thieving, and besides they sell everything there after a certain length of time, no matter whether your case is settled or not. And you never know how long these cases will last, especially these days. Of course you would...
...following day, Swiss pilots flying ski-equipped Fieseler Storch planes took off survivors in nine breathtaking shuttle trips. None of the passengers had been badly hurt. Captain Ralph Tate Jr., pilot of the plane, felt so good at the rescue depot that he spurned an ambulance, jauntily vaulted a fence to the waiting hospital train. To eleven-year-old Alice McMahon, it had been great good fun living off snow and chocolate bars for five days. She came off the rescue plane vigorously chewing gum, told reporters: "I had a fine time...
...about three weeks they will report to "the Stage," a large depot where native French counselors and the American visitors will get acquainted and receive briefing on specific French camping problems...