Word: loads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wellesley Dance--Among the appealing invitations issued to us was the one coming from Wellesley College. Under the efficient management of Rod Willoughby, transportation via chartered city bus was arranged and a load of fifty-four singing midshipmen rode out. Held at Severance Hall, the canned music and punch bowl vied with the terrace walk in popularity...
...Wehrmacht, defections in the Balkans meant disaster at astronomically compounded interest: 22 German divisions on the Rumanian front were doomed to defeat, most of them to death or capture; 25 Rumanian divisions which had been helping the Nazis turned against them. Twelve Bulgarian divisions which had eased the German load in Yugoslavia and Greece had to pull out. The Germans had 14 to 16 divisions in those countries; the bulk of them could never get back to the Reich...
...appearance-see FOREIGN NEWS) needed 3,000 tons of fuel at once, 3,000 tons of food every day. Mountains of other supplies had to be moved on & off the Normandy beaches for the armies. By last week the Allies were hot & heavy after more ports to carry the load...
...north of what is likely to be the real northeast gateway to Europe: the great base at Goose Bay on Labrador's Hamilton Inlet. To bring Goose within easier reach of the continental U.S., the U.S. Army built a base at Mingan, Quebec, which increased the pay load, reduced the fuel load of planes flying through this gateway to Europe. Canada acquired this airfield too by the new deal...
...Half a Load. The major secondary target for planes which for any reason had to pass up Anshan was Tangku, the port of Tientsin in northernmost China. The Monsoon was past Tangku on the way home when it was discovered that half her bomb load had stuck in the bay. A target of last resort had been specified: the airfield at Chenghsien. The nearby railway junction had already been bombed by a diversionary force of B-29s. The Monsoon knocked out the airfield control tower with its leftovers and breezed back to base...