Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Rommel rolled the British back from Bengasi last February, he picked up a lot of supplies which the British had left in dumps. Since then he has had little use for the dump system. His truck convoys-nearly every truck towing a trailer-come up to the forward zones at night and restock the fighting columns there. Water, gasoline and food are brought up at night-if necessary, by air. And everything captured from the British-a truck or a can of gasoline-is promptly put to Rommel's use. Even British tanks, captured one day, go back...
When Rommel rolled the British back from Bengasi last February, he picked up a lot of supplies which the British had left in dumps. Since then he has had little use for the dump system. His truck convoys-nearly every truck towing a trailer-come up to the forward zones at night and restock the fighting columns there. Water, gasoline and food are brought up at night-if necessary, by air. And everything captured from the British-a truck or a can of gasoline-is promptly put to Rommel's use. Even British tanks, captured one day, go back...
Marias. In Nashville, Tenn., Police Chief John Griffin decided to put a lock on the patrol-wagon door after a prisoner ran away. In Kearny, N.J., four men who lived on a garbage dump were convicted of vagrancy. After looking them over, police refused to let them enter their shining patrol wagon, carried them to jail in a garbage truck...
...Keep 'Em Laughing isn't all headliners. Jack Cole and his dancers deftly combine Oriental gestures with jazz rhythms; Miriam La Velle does exciting acrobatic dances. But by far the best thing in the show is an animal act called The Bricklayers. The delightful trained dogs who dump loads of bricks, clamber up & down ladders, act tight, sham dead, ride around on scooters and perform on the trapeze deserve the rare compliment that they might have been invented by Walt Disney...
...Corregidor saw only a little of the ghastly end. The last, pitifully small ammunition dump on Bataan went up in smoke and flame; the three ships at the water's edge (including the 6,000-ton sub tender Canopus) were dynamited. Finally, from one of the heights on Bataan, a white flag went up. How many of the 36,000 died fighting, only the Japs knew...