Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shoulder. The first combat team thrown against Troina by Major General Terry Allen's ist Infantry Division bounced back hard. German howitzers and mor tars skillfully held the hilltops. The ist Division massed its artillery, called in dive-bombers of the Tactical Air Force. For 72 hours the dust of an Allied barrage hung over the German emplacements. Then the ist Division smashed forward and through Troina...
...Germans found out in 1914 how to manufacture gasoline by treating coal dust with hydrogen under heat and pressure arid have been forced to use it ever since, but they have never licked the high-cost problem. Says an American oil industry expert: "If the master technicians of the world [the Germans] were unable to work out a competitive product by this coal hydrogenation process after almost 30 years of effort, if the British failed to develop an economic method with the help of huge government subsidies, it is highly unlikely that the U.S. will find the answer...
...shell hit the top of the hill. A dark lump flew up with the smoke and blasted dust and went higher and fell in a gentle arc. A man screamed: "Help! help! help! help...
From a high hill, our shells crashed into the valley in increasing volume. In a mist of smoke and dust the tanks flitted warily. Forced to retreat out of the plain before the superior fire of the Mark-IVs, our light Honey tanks had hidden in a draw. They now poured a hail of diagonal fire at the German tanks. An artillery observer, awed by the gun-tank battle and our grandstand seat far above it, murmured: "You'll never see anything like this again in 20 years...
Less & Less. The best bet to ease civilian shortages is still better distribution. Last week WPB's Executive Vice Chairman Charles E. Wilson sharply increased Whiteside's powers, gave him the last word in WPB over inventories and distribution. No longer will caches of goods gather dust in sleepy towns while acute shortages in mushrooming war centers hit production...