Word: gearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...A.A.F. had already lifted China's Sixth Army twice, with its 25,000 men, 2,178 horses and mules, more than 1,500 tons of gear. Now it was time again to pick up the Sixth, which claims to be "the most airborne army in the world." It was a bigger job than ever: at Chikiang the Sixth had been swollen to more than 33,000 men. The Tenth Air Force's 443rd Troop Carrier Group loaded 45 to 50 of the men into each of its C-46s, flew them over central China's great blue...
Shifting to winter headquarters indoors, the undergraduate exercise program will swing into high gear Monday with the addition of House basketball, wrestling, and squash, Norman W. Fradd, assistant director of Athletics, announced last night...
They set to stripping her of her movable gear, littering her decks with outmoded radar, communication equipment, boxes of crockery and silverware. A faded jack at her bow, her commission pennant, and her ragged ensign hanging limply aft indicated that she was still a ship of the U.S. Navy, but soon these flags would be hauled down and she would be towed off to the bone yard...
...Russians Again. The Japs organized this country thoroughly: the south was the rice bowl, the north was the workshop (see map). Together the two parts formed a working economic entity; separated they are simply out of gear. The split along the 38th parallel is Korea's biggest, most galling problem. The border isn't closed, but no shipments are coming over...
Harvard's minor sports program shifts into high gear tomorrow as two soccer games and a cross-country meet mark the official opening of the all season...