Word: lucke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nothing new in classic blockade-running has been developed. The three ships sunk by U.S. craft were typical runners. Medium-sized freighters (about 7,000 tons) with better-than-average speed (15 knots up) work out best. They rely on luck and bad weather, pick the foggiest of nights to leave Europe...
Garnisheed Money. Committee members reeled under this drumfire of hard-luck statements. But John Alessi went on to testify that his false teeth cost $105, that his rent is $38 (which is reduced to $30 because his wife tends the apartment furnace), that his pay is garnisheed $3.78 a week by the National City Bank, that he has to buy three quarts of milk a day for his children. This last reminded John Alessi...
Four of them were over Germany, and on the last one his luck almost ran out. He was flying as top-turret gunner over Münster when a flak burst hit the turret dome, shattered his goggles, tore off his oxygen mask. Copilot and radioman pulled him down and revived him with an emergency mask. After that, Ben got his orders for home...
Thus last week began the third Allied landing in Italy. Of the three, this was the best planned, most spectacular, potentially the most important. With luck it would end the campaign for southern Italy and Rome within a few weeks...
...credit side, the B-26 did have a good combat record in the Pacific, where it pounded Jap ships and supplies. But the first squadrons to reach England last year ran into hard luck again...