Word: knocked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meantime Nelson continued to knock the frosting off the U.S. economy. He stopped production of Christmas-tree and advertising-light bulbs, of brass eyelets for shoes, ordered a 50% cut in tin cans for beer, coffee, tobacco, oil, dog food. As its first move into international problems, WPB allocated 4% of rayon production to Latin America...
...Dutch airmen worked well together and with the surface fleet. By concentrating first on Jap planes and naval vessels, the bombers freed Admiral Hart's warships to knock off the transports like so many ducks...
...Navy had its heroes. A swift motor torpedo boat commanded by Lieut. John D. Bulkeley slipped into Subic Bay one night and sank a 5,000-ton Jap ship, got away clean. A week later Bulkeley returned, this time in a torpedo boat commanded by Ensign George Cox, to knock off another 5,000-tonner. Meanwhile more than 200 miles north of Manila a band of Philippine guerrillas burst from the hills and slashed at a Jap airdrome at Tuguegarao on Northern Luzon. They reported (presumably by radio to Corregidor) that they had killed no Japs, routed 300 more...
...said, fortnight ago: "If we can knock [the Axis] out of the war, we can do what we like with Japan afterward...
...Largest crowd at a U.S. prizefight was not the 120,757 that saw the first Dempsey-Tunney world-championship fight in Philadelphia (1926), but the crowd that watched Tony Zale knock out Billy Pryor last summer in Milwaukee. It was a free show put on by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. The attendance...