Word: lighter
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Saarbrücken. Next night it was Saarbrücken, steel and coal center in the lower Saar basin, 300 miles from Britain's coast. The raid was lighter than the searing blows struck on Hamburg, but the Air Ministry put the bombers in the hundreds...
Double Threat. While the big bombers were busy, and while they squatted at their dispersal stations, lighter planes of the R.A.F.-two-engined bombers and fighter bombers-ranged continuously over the occupied areas in swarms of from half a dozen to 200 at a time. Before big bombing raids they smashed at anti-aircraft installations, sucked German pursuits into fights. At other times they worked on transportation, blew up trains, cannoned locomotives, flipped bombs into railroad yards...
...Most diesels are four-cycled-three out of four piston strokes serve only to charge the cylinder for the power stroke. But in the two-cycle diesel, every downstroke has an explosive push behind it. Thus the weight of the two extra cylinders can be eliminated. Two of the lighter engines can now be installed where one was formerly used, and a lot more fuel can also be carried. Hence the new subchasers are not only twice as powerful as the old type, but have an increased cruising range...
...with all German modes of war, Mot pulk was not new in its elements, but in its design and use. The Germans, who once scorned weight and mass for the lighter, faster Panzer technique, had now gone whole hog for mass. So had other armies. The achievement of Hitler's Chief of Staff Franz Haider was in giving his mass a speed and flexibility which in pace rivaled his 1939-41 Blitzkrieg...
...young, trusted friend, Congressman Lyndon Baines Johnson of Texas. Tall Lyndon Johnson, a Navy lieutenant commander, had sought active duty one hour after voting for war against Japan. He had ranged as far as Perth, Melbourne, Sidney, Darwin and Port Moresby. Now he returned to Washington 28 Ib. lighter (from a pneumonia attack) but much wiser in the ways...