Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Insurance. In Fort Atkinson, Wis.. Mrs. Adelaine Hill reached 107, still "strong and healthy, maybe because I wear two petticoats...
...Japs came into the cathedral too; they took her father to Fort Santiago, and killed him. They herded Rosalinda and her mother and other women & children into a nearby church, lobbed grenades into their midst, then lunged in with their bayonets. Her mother was hit by a grenade, and the little girl was stabbed 38 times...
...Fort Worth...
...Swift. The Swift, one of the first all-metal light planes to be made on an assembly line, rolled out of the Globe Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Fort Worth fort night ago. A sleek, shiny, two-place monoplane, the Swift is a cut above most small planes in speed (140 m.p.h.), as well as price ($3,495 up to $3,995). But Globe is not worried about its high-priced product. It announced that it already has a backlog of $11,000,000 in firm orders. Estimated production next year: 4,000 planes...
...Dutch stood by their 1942 pledge of self-government for the Indies in a new Netherlands Commonwealth, but they boggled at dealing with Soekarno, began shipping troops from Holland to the island battlefield. British troops, holding the imperial fort until sufficient Dutch forces arrived, were caught in the middle. They were criticized by the natives for helping the Dutch, by the Dutch for haggling over the conditions of help. At week's end the Allied commander in Java, British Major General D. C. Hawthorn, proclaimed that looting, sabotage, possessing or refusing to surrender arms by natives would be punished...