Word: dig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Food Machinery Corp. will also build in its ten plants, scattered from California to Florida: 1) a dehydrating haymaker-that cuts hay and rolls it so that all moisture is squeezed out; 2) a new fast-moving sprayer for orchards; 3) a potato-harvesting machine that will dig, brush, grade and box potatoes in the field...
...like to think the chief difference is that TIME's editors have time to dig back of the news and do the job the papers would like to do if they were freed from the pressure of their daily and hourly deadlines...
What's it feel like that close? Well, let me think. First there's a row-a steadily increasing row that seems to fill up everything. And you're trying to dig into the ground and you wait and wait, thinking, "This is my lot." Then the explosion. Well, it's so loud that first you sort of feel it rather than hear...
...like all Chinese divisions, was understrength. The entire division had two pieces of artillery-two antique French 75's-several mortars, some machine guns and rifles. It also had guts. What it had to do was to move up the hills in the daylight, ignoring Jap artillery, and dig live Japs out of holes they had had prepared for three weeks...
...dirt. He scooped bladeful after bladeful against the mouth of the cave until it was blocked with at least a five-foot thickness of earth. It all ended there. It was not very satisfactory because we never found out what was in the hole. Maybe some day somebody will dig into this piece of earth, and into hundreds of similar pieces of earth on Saipan, and find some answers...