Word: exploits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Future, No Action. Trim, 47-year-old Mr. Boeschenstein was drafted late in 1942 from the presidency of rich, war-busy Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp., which he and Amory Houghton put together in 1938 to exploit Owens-Illinois and Corning Glass Works' progressive research in glass fibers...
...soup fog might be catastrophic to invasion barges, compelled to navigate blindly. It would also rob the invaders of a chance to exploit initial advantage, help the enemy to shift his troops without air hindrance...
...remnant. The Navy and the U.S. were proud. Summoned from the South Pacific to Washington, Butch O'Hare got the Congressional Medal of Honor from President Roosevelt for "one of the most daring, if not the most daring, single action in the history of combat aviation." Of his exploit, Butch only said: "There wasn't much to do but shoot...
...best newspapermen," read the President, "resent this sea of hint and rumor. . . . The worst and most irresponsible deliberately exploit it-as the Patterson and McCormick newspapers are constantly doing...
...they take cover?" A few minutes later he crawled over to a slit-trench phone, talked to a regimental commander. "Of course, your battalion commander knows more about the situation than I do," he said smoothly. "But maybe we ought to get in there fast and exploit this barrage." Back at the outpost, he commented: "We're going to attack in half an hour." But he did not wait. He was off to other forward units, riding with one long leg astride a fender of his jeep...