Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...massed Fortress flights over Europe. Such teams are used sparingly; on them depends the mission's success, for under the new bombing system only the bombardier of the lead Fortress and a few others scattered through the formation do the actual sighting; at their signal the other planes drop their bombs...
...They also reasoned that the drop in the market might have scared the Rockefellers-and their underwriters-away from carrying through so large an offering...
...after four years of blockade, German industry was down 30%. Today it is off precisely the same percent on the tally sheets of Britain's Ministry of Economic Warfare-and half the drop has occurred in the six months since Allied air power grew up. This week the Eighth Air Force tabulated its daytime share...
...efficiency, and all that passes through it is filed neatly in mental pigeonholes. But he is no dullard. A clear thinker, he keeps his feet on a solid foundation of history, philosophy and economics. Like most Soviet leaders, he quotes from Hegel, Marx, Lenin, Plekhanov-and Stalin-at the drop of a gavel...
...feet bleeding, Lassie beats her homeward trail through some of the most pleasing Technicolored landscapes of the year. She has a run-in with two shepherds and their ferocious coal-black dog. She performs the supercanine feat of swimming the River Tweed and reaches English ground, half dead, to drop at the doorsill of two aged, lonely cottagers. They nurse her, realize she is on her way somewhere, sorrowfully let her go. She takes up with a traveling peddler and his charming little trick dog, Toots. She fights off a pair of robbers, escapes some dog-catchers by a crippling...