Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They swarmed across Lake Sentani in amphibious landing craft, quickly captured the three Hollandia airfields. Except for scattered sniping, the only Jap opposition was an ineffectual 14-plane torpedo attack on a U.S. destroyer in Hollandia Bay and a single plane bombing of the Jap supply dump, which exploded like a string of firecrackers down two miles of beach...
...Henry Wallace will be back in time for the July 19 opening of the Democratic National Convention. This was sad news to those Democrats who had fondly hoped that Franklin Roosevelt was going to dump Henry at long distance...
Workers on the 17-mile crisscross tracks exasperatingly dubbed SS&VV RR (Sling Something and Vinegar Valley Railroad), which serve a dump storing $4 billion worth of U.S. ordnance, were busier than they had ever been. At another similarly large British dump there was a similar bustle. The U.S. Army borrowed the British design for bridges, the British borrowed the U.S. K-ration but substituted condensed tea for coffee...
...Master's Horn. That valley is only one concentration point in England's countryside. A lovely forest, part of a lord's estate, covers a mammoth ammunition dump of 80,000 tons of aerial bombs, shells of all calibers. In steel huts are 33,000,000 rounds of one type of shell. The master and his family, who live in this volcanic world with calm aplomb, have turned over most of the manor house to U.S. officers. Relations between manor and mess are happy, especially so since the day U.S. troops pumped out the manor house...
...that time, no one except "Mike Scat" could get the garbage-collecting contract. The law provides that a bidder for the contract must own a garbage dump; an incinerator would not do. Mike owns several dumps along New Jersey's Hackensack River, whence he sells his swill by the cubic yard to pig farmers...