Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...train raced smoothly southward through New Jersey. . . . The soldiers stared at the whizzing landscape, at bright-paned homes merging with descending dark. . . . They dreamed on it with hungry eyes. One lad not more than 21, his leg amputated, told the soldier across the aisle: 'Even the dump piles look swell.' The other soldier nodded: 'You ain't kiddin...
...been a Cleveland molder cast a sour look at the local foundry facilities: a fire in a sand pit, with hollows scooped in the ground for molds. There were no furnaces, patterns or flasks. So he made his own. With a furnace of firebrick taken from the town dump, his three enlisted men and several Indians turn out 500 different items from junkyard aluminum and used brass cartridge cases...
...Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair last week gave a name to the Nazi nuisance raiders: he called them "the scalded cats." Usually streaking in at high altitudes, singly or in small groups, Me 410 and FW 190 fighter-bombers cross the Channel from France in 16 minutes or so, dump their bombloads anywhere, skedaddle for home. These in-&-out tactics give the Fighter Command and anti-aircraft guns slight chance to strike back, but the R.A.F. has bagged more than 6% of the intruders. (British Mosquito bomber losses over Germany: less than...
Between the prayer and the thanksgiving, the U.S. Fifth Air Force had scraped together enough aircraft to dump 350 tons of bombs on Rabaul, Japan's Southwest Pacific air-sea bastion. The surprised Japs lost 60% of their Rabaul air force-100 planes destroyed on the ground, 51 others damaged, 26 shot down. "Sunk or destroyed" were 119 ships ranging from tiny harbor craft to destroyers...
...jumped by a Zero at 100 feet," he said. "Then I used the hand lever to dump the flaps and I saw the Jap go by and pull up in a turn. I just held my trigger down until he blew...