Word: fondest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...single day by Allied planes rose to 8,000. The greatest U.S. air fleet ever launched on a single mission sent 1,000 heavy bombers and 1,200 fighters against three synthetic oil plants in the Leipzig area. This was air power in force to fit the fondest visions of Mitchell and Douhet-and more accurately employed than they had even dreamed in their...
Seigle is 29 and married. He was practicing law in New York when the army called him, but his fondest memory covers his days as a pitcher on the Brooklyn College baseball team and his try-out with the N. Y. Giants...
...them to scout, fight and pursue Rommel 2,000 miles. U.S. troops had one waiting for President Roosevelt at Casablanca. Everywhere the tough, square, squat jeeps are bouncing the backsides of the United Nations. Potentates and savages ride jeeps; soldiers regard them fondly, pat their rugged sides. But the fondest pats of all come from Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., foster parent of the jeep. To Willys the jeep is a plug-ugly duckling who laid a golden...
From Philadelphia came a less clear-cut challenge, from Harlem's famed Father Divine, temporarily resident in Philadelphia: "By tangibilating your fondest imagination I have brought into actuality the REALITY OF GOD ALMIGHTY-Therefore, I say, handle ME and feel ME and see that a spirit has not flesh and bones!" A New York City warrant for his arrest-he is in arrears on a judgment to one Mrs. Verinda Brown-restricts his Harlem Heaven visits to Sundays, when warrants cannot be served...
...Army's four-motored bombers have proved superior in their categories in all theaters. Actual employment of the Boeing B-17 (Flying Fortress) over Europe has exceeded even the fondest expectations of its American proponents. It is a tribute to the determination of the Army Air Forces in developing this type of craft that the same kind of record has been made by the Consolidated B-24 in Egypt and in other areas...