Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...areas. When the R.A.F. obtained its latest (Dec. 21) complete set of reconnaissance photographs, the buildings on about 1,360 of these 8,000 acres had been destroyed by 9,000 tons of bombs in six major raids. Since then the R.A.F. has dropped another 5,000 tons. Exact results will be known only when smoke, weather, other factors enable reconnaissance pilots to update their photographic evidence...
...Army security officers frowned, brooded, gnawed their thumbs. What was to prevent an enemy agent from counting the bongs? Any spy with ears could check off the exact number of V-29s being turned off the Wichita line. Finally Air Forces public-relations men could stand it no longer, took the company to task. Nonplussed, Boeing officials asserted that the whole bell-bonging idea had been suggested by no less than Lieut. General Bill Knudsen himself. They hinted that until they heard from some higher rank, the three-star order was good enough for them...
...Journal of Madame Giovanni is loaded to the gunwales. The decks are awash. It has everything in its 380 pages, including several earthquakes. Much of it is given over to an exact, sharp-eyed observation of life in the South Sea Islands, California and Mexico, in the decade 1844-54. The observer is Madame Giovanni, 20 when the story opens, slender, beautiful, and a bride. The combination of her loves and adventures, and the businesslike noting of contemporary facts, alternate with the billowy relaxations of Mme. Giovanni's feminine wiles...
...exact proportion of American to British troops, in joint operations to be conducted in northwestern Europe, is a military secret which the Germans would like to know, but will not learn from any official source in this country...
Governor Tom Dewey has hinted broadly that the U.S. Government has sinister reasons for not giving Lepke up. U.S. Attorney General Francis Biddle has retorted that Tom Dewey has never asked for the prisoner-in quite the exact, technically legal way Mr. Biddle requires...