Word: huges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pressed hundreds of jeeps and trucks into service to keep production going at the Army Ordnance Depot and the Navy Yard. But the Philadelphia transit system regularly carries 1,150,000 persons a day. Thousands had to walk, on days when the thermometer shot to 97 degrees. At the huge General Electric, Westinghouse and Budd plants, production slumped more than...
Major William Mallory, onetime Yale ('24) footballer, studied the huge map of northern Italy in his headquarters, noted that the wide Po River had remarkably few bridges. All the German supplies for the fighting front, all the raw materials for war industries in the Po Valley, had to funnel through some two dozen rail and road spans. Major Mallory drew his plan, presented it to his commander, Major General John K. Cannon of the Twelfth (Tactical) Air Force...
...ceremonious, by all odds, were 100 Japs who were on the rocks below the Marpi Point cliff. All together, they suddenly bowed to marines watching from the cliff. Then they stripped off their clothes and bathed in the sea. Thus refreshed, they put on new clothes and spread a huge Jap flag on a smooth rock. Then the leader distributed hand grenades. One by one, as the pins were pulled, the Japs blew their insides...
Suddenly, all the hundreds of Wallace placards had vanished. The three huge white Wallace balloons, which had hung over the convention all day, were let go; they floated swiftly to the dim rafters overhead, there to bump softly above the smoke, the lights, and the cheers...
...long as the Red Armies delayed an attack on East Prussia, the exit gate for the German Armies in the Baltic provinces stood open. But the Nazis were in dire peril. Having carved a huge salient in Lithuania, General Bagramian was closer last week to Riga than General Chernyakhovsky, at the Suwalki triangle, was to Konigsberg. Yet a breakthrough to Riga would bring in only part of the bag. Pulling the drawstring at Konigsberg might be more difficult, but it would pay off more handsomely...