Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Last week the Navy announced that it had added 100,000 vessels (above the size of boats) to the 7,695 it had in commission on Dec. 7, 1941. The breakdown: 1,150 combatant ships; 557 auxiliaries; 82,266 landing ships and landing craft; the balance, patrol and mine craft...
...month after the first live German magnetic mine was captured on Nov. 24, 1939, Britain had produced a completely successful counter-weapon. That weapon, the Admiralty announced last week, was a pair of long electrified cables towed behind two minesweeping tugs. The cables set up a magnetic field strong enough to explode all mines within a ten-acre area, thus cleared wide shipping lanes in a hurry...
...Government promised several more immediate reforms. It abolished a long list of semifeudal laws which compelled the Indians, both men & women, to work for their landlords without pay, sometimes as much as five days a week. It agreed to enforce a longstanding, long-flouted law requiring landlords and mine owners to support elementary schools. The Government also threatened to punish "agitators"-which suggested that the proposed reforms were made to quiet rural unrest...
Other discoveries of the week: ¶ A whopping collection of uncatalogued art objects-in a sealed mine near Alt-Aussee, high in the Austrian Alps. This "lode" is reported to include works from Monte Cassino, Rothschild collections from Paris and Vienna, the famed Ghent altarpiece by the Brothers Van Eyck, and a part of Goring's treasures. (Deep in the mine are Hitler's own library and personal correspondence...
...year-old, shattered little town and its inhabitants, is no less devoted to human meaning. As he shows them, old men. women and children, draining townward out of their hill caves, clambering bewildered among their demolished homes. or being extracted from under the rubble of a late-exploding mine or trap, war takes on great and complex meanings. And in one long passage, free of comment, while the screen multiplies the Etruscan...