Word: el
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That same problem delayed General Sir Bernard Law Montgomery in the east. His Eighth Army had moved some 700 miles beyond its base at El Alamein. Until recaptured Bengasi was restored as a usable port, each tank on Montgomery's new front required the exclusive service of a 1,000-gallon self-propelled tank truck. The gasoline supply problem alone was mountainous. The problems of food, ammunition and spare parts piled mountain upon mountain...
...actual demonstration of the many complicated emergency devices was supervised by Captain James Kennedy of the Boston Fire Department. Among the pieces of apparatus he explained were a block for raising El cars to release persons pinned underneath, the gas mask and its proper use, and a combination inhalator-resuscitator to be used in cases where artificial respiration is needed. He claimed that this machine was far superior to manual resuscitation and gave several examples of miraculous recoveries from...
...Interstate's parts business soared anew, its little Cadet was ordered by the hundreds for the Government pilot-training program. Meanwhile Smith and Navy engineers sweated hours over a bigger & batter plane, finally got one. Last May a cluster of Navy aviation experts flew to the little El Segundo plant, ogled a radically designed plywood plane. The Navy promptly placed huge orders. To take care of the rush, Smith expanded into Los Angeles, leased a huge furniture plant at De Kalb, Ill., handed multimillion-dollar aviation subcontracts to ex-jukebox makers Rudolph Wurlitzer Co. and ex-civilian producer Singer...
Erwin Rommel gained one distinction from the last Libyan campaign. He conducted one of the longest retreats in military history. By last week he had traversed 900 miles from his shattered line at El Alamein...
...again. Mudholes were drying up. Allied planes once more were in the air over Rommel's thinning columns, over El Agheila and over Tripoli. The question still was whether he could organize his haggard, battered Afrika Korps for a stand at the El Agheila bottleneck. Rommel might yet earn even more distinction...