Word: lookout
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hull, rigging and spars sheathed in ice, the schooner Mary E. O'Hara, of Boston, turned tail to the fishing banks last week and headed for home. On a dark night, in near-zero weather, she thrashed into Boston Channel. A numbed lookout in the bow suddenly shouted. Frantically the helmsman tried to put her over, but she was sluggish with ice, heavy with 50,000 lb. of fish in her hold. Next moment the Mary E. O'Hara crashed into a barge anchored off Finn's Ledge...
...small, attractive place, high in the Black Hills. It was on the Black Hills tourist route, which promised sizable audiences. Most important, the zealous Mr. Bett persuaded fellow townsmen to spend $28,000 for an open-air amphitheatre (to seat 7,000), with masses of evergreens and towering Lookout Mountain as a backdrop...
...this meant that automen had to keep a sharp lookout too. Their suppliers-processors of steel, lumber, textiles, etc.-are pretty well covered on their raw material needs into the first quarter of 1941. But if pressed too hard by a booming auto industry these suppliers might suddenly decide that the twin-motored Defense and consumer boom is heading them into inventory trouble-trouble, for once, on the short side. In that case, they might all jump into the commodities markets together, attempt to stock up for capacity operations through the end of 1941. Such a forward-buying movement would...
...desert, British and Italian tanks and armored cars scuttled in and out of the oases, "islands of the blessed," in the modern version of Lawrence of Arabia's strike-and-run stratagem with camel raiders. The British kept a lookout for an overland thrust southeast across the ancient caravan trails to Cairo or Khartoum. Having once accomplished the impossible, in forced marches and road building in Ethiopia, it was not inconceivable that Italy might pit her legions against both nature and the British, in a gamble to sever the British Empire's jugular...
...Most news offices had air-raid shelters underground, fitted up as newsrooms, with telephones and typewriters. Associated Press, United Press each kept a steel-helmeted reporter on its rooftop to watch raiders and telephone descriptions to the newsrooms down below. When the lookout announced that bombers were overhead, half the staff ducked into shelters; the rest stayed at their desks upstairs...