Word: grabs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With one other invasion blow, the Japs could grab all they need of Australia for their immediate purposes. This blow would probably fall on two points: Cape York at the northern extremity of Australia's eastern coast, Gladstone at its center. Object: to close the inland waterway between the eastern shore and 1,200-mile-long Great Barrier Reef, give the Japs a protected channel more than half way from Cape York to the great port and naval base at Sydney. In Gladstone the Japs would take away one of the few oil depots the Allies have...
Although Bunks Burditt, who has lately fallen in the shadow of Hugh Hyde's ascendancy, cannot hope to catch up to Munroe and Olsen in the individual scoring race, he has one more game in which to grab third place from Princeton's Lawry, who now holds a three margin over the Crimson Sophomore...
...knocked the gooseneck [rail fastening] off the life raft," he said later, "and dropped it to the water. When I hit the water I looked around for the raft. It was gone. I kicked myself away from the ship and swam aft, thinking I'd grab the rudderpost. Instead I hit the propeller. I thought to myself: 'Oh, oh, this is no place for me.' But the propeller was dead. I swam away from the ship. It must have been ten minutes later that I heard someone holler. It was Sparks [the radio operator]. He hollered...
...June 1940. All hands were saved. An Australian salvager, Captain J. P. Williams, found the Niagara in February 1941. From a telephone-equipped diving bell divers directed the lowering of explosives to blast through to the small bullion room in the ship's center. Next they lowered a grab into the murky interior of the bullion room. Last Dec. 7 the job was done. Last week the news finally leaked out: more than eight tons of gold had been retrieved...
Months ago Mr. Ferguson decided that U.S. employers should "grab the ball from the New Deal" and care for their own unemployed after the war. To Secretary Morgenthau he proposed that the Treasury offer $500 certificates for sale to war employers. Employers would buy one certificate per year for each employe in excess of the number on the payroll June 30, 1940. Thus three years of war employment would provide about $30 a week, for one year, to each surplus war worker...