Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...month the 82nd fought as infantry before it was pulled back to England to rest. In September it made another drop, this time in the Nijmegen sector in Holland. In December, near Stavelot, the 82nd fought on the northern side of the Ardennes bulge, while the loist staged its epic stand to the south, at Bastogne. The 82nd finished the European war fighting with the British Second Army at Wittenburg...
Chocolate Drop, a 130-ft. reddish-brown mound, was another tough obstacle on the way to Shuri. For six days the 77th Infantry Division fought seesaw battles for the top, and finally won it. The Japs also counterattacked Conical Hill and clung to positions on the south slope, barring access to the west coast port of Yonabaru. On the east coast, Marine patrols found Naha a stinking, corpse-littered ruin...
...from war production were approaching the Great Divide in the first quarter. The long climb which had carried earnings steadily upward in the booming war years was leveling out (see chart). As the V-E day cutbacks in war production melted away the once mountainous backlogs, war profits would drop...
Last week, the Packard Motor Car Co. showed how big the drop may be. Some of its cutbacks arrived in time to affect first-quarter earnings. Result: earnings dropped to $655,420 from last year...
...shortage headache was prescribed in Washington last week: WPB approved the manufacture of some 500,000 dozen new golf balls with synthetic (neoprene) rubber centers. (Tests showed that the new balls were 15 yards short of the real thing on a 225-yd. drive.) It was a drop in the bucket compared to the yearly peacetime output of 3,000,000 dozen, but it would help...