Word: ditches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Administration this week rolled up its artillery in a last-ditch attempt to stabilize prices and wages, and to hold John L. Lewis...
...Chinese field where the flight was heading. Fitzhugh's ship landed safely in a rice paddy and the crew fired it. They could see lanterns, hear voices of Chinese peasants who were too terrified to approach. It was raining sheets, but Fitzhugh's boys slept in a ditch until morning, then took refuge in an abandoned pillbox built by the Chinese Army...
...with the Ditch. The pro-ditchers would not be downed, and they had new support. Their big ace was none other than Senator Bridges. His chilly constituents had convinced him. Last week he spark-plugged a Senate move to override the House action, to attach the Florida barge-canal appropriation to a War Department appropriations bill...
...This week the Senators will try to push the ditch through, despite Harold Ickes. But then, if the House also changes its mind, the payoff must still come from WPB: only WPB can release the materials to build the canal, the barges, the tugs...
...djebels were taken. Between them lay a hollow with a huge, V-shaped anti-tank ditch and behind the ditch a nest of 88-mm. guns. The enemy had dug their ditch well, using pneumatic drills to get deep into the rocky subsurface. A British battalion was sent in to clean out that pocket of resistance. It was mean work, but they...