Word: hauls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days after he went to work as an unpaid A.R.P. warden, Monty Finch plunged into the flooded cellar of a bombed house, swam and waded nose-deep through rafts of debris, past crumbling walls to haul an old man, an old woman, several other bombees out to safety. Next day he confided to another warden, "I shan't be alive much longer. One of these air raids will get me." Three days later the air raids got him with a direct hit, right in front of his post...
...from European Russia, Adolf Hitler would get a potentially big haul. But considering sabotage possibilities, and most importantly Russia's own needs - if it is to remain enough of a going concern to make its conquest worthwhile at all - it is likely that the big haul would take a long time. Possibly Hitler could hold and control Russia long enough for German technical and administrative genius to make the big haul come true. The alternative might be one of the greatest headaches in history...
...units were fortresses which the Russians call "bins." Some were visible, to draw attack in their direction-into traps of other bins camouflaged with turf. Some served as huge underground tank hangars. From each bin, "drains" were dug-trenches to give egress to woods. Camouflaged tractors stood ready to haul off artillery in case of retreat. The bigger bins bristled with antiaircraft, the smaller were draped with nets and foliage to hide them from the air. Into this system the Russians crowded something like 60 divisions. The Germans went after them with an estimated...
...used each day on the Atlantic seaboard. When the first 50 tankers went, oilmen tightened their belts by speedups in tanker service, heavier loading, greater use of pipeline and rail. The loss of 100 more tankers would cut the daily intercoastal tanker haul to less than 600,000 bbl. This is a chasm no stopgap methods can bridge...
...Presumably the U.S. will soon begin to convoy to Reykjavik. There the British Navy can take over and convoy Lend-Lease goods the rest of the way to Britain. If this takes place it will enable the British to concentrate their convoy vessels on the last leg of the haul. The inevitable result: much lower mortality among British merchantmen, much higher mortality among U-boats. Add to this the fact that Reykjavik can now serve as a base for U.S. naval patrols, particularly air patrols, as far as the coast of Norway, and the U.S. occupation of Iceland may eventually...