Word: dumps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Navy heaved-hoed a tremendous sigh of relief, ravenously seized the opportunity afforded by a routine brush-off of so-some Inactive Reservists to dump Lieut. Commander Winchell over the side. Officially he was given his choice of either resigning his reserve commission by July i or standing by to take active duty wherever & whenever the Navy thinks best...
...assortment of bulldozers, water-purification outfits, pneumatic drills, earth-borers. Some will join ponton (Engineer for pontoon) companies, will learn to sweat hip-deep in rivers, laying bridges for the infantry. Others will go to topographical (mapmaking) outfits, to railroad-operating companies, to general service regiments, to camouflage battalions, dump-truck companies, water-supply battalions, shop companies, depot companies...
...pursuit. Because the Army wanted to use the light tank again, Colonel Williams and his six-man civilian crew fired only their machine guns. Colonel Christmas explained what would happen to the light tank if Colonel Williams turned loose his 75: "We would send a dump truck out on the range and bring back a pile of old iron." As M3 gathered speed, a visible streak of .30 caliber bullets smashed into the hull and tracks of the smaller tank...
...each were more than 1,000 Jews bound for limbo-the new barbed-wire ghetto near Lublin in Poland. Elsewhere sealed trains crossed the border with more Jews (mostly very old and very young) for the starved concentration camps of unoccupied France. From Vienna alone the Nazis promised to dump five to twelve more trainloads a month. Hitler's final solution to his problem in subtraction is zero-to be reached, according to the most sanguine reports from Germany, in just six more weeks...
...signal for it came not from Business, but from events. Within 15 days of France's fall, the Army & Navy began to dump orders of $41,000,000 a day in industry's lap. The important fact about these orders was that they were for capital goods. For the first time in more than a decade, industry's prime mover-capital-goods expansion-agitated the indexes again. The steel rate soared from 60% of capacity (April) to 92% in September. At 11:30 p.m., on Dec. 9, steelworkers finishing the second shift also finished an era. They...