Word: mined
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polluted Water. Last week General LeMay also disclosed a six-weeks-old cam paign to strangle Jap shipping by dense aerial mining of her coastal and inland waters. Nineteen missions had been flown ; the Navy had furnished the mines and mine experts. Parachuted into the water at night, the mines are the "magnetic" type; they sink to the bottom and explode when a ship passes close by. LeMay plans to keep the waters "polluted...
...conference finally broke up in indecision. I was ordered to leave Berlin with my stenographic reports but my partner was to remain. He pointed out that in that case the reports were valueless, because if he stayed no one would be able to transcribe his records, and without his, mine would be incomplete. Bormann then ordered us both to leave that evening by plane...
...dont like because I am offly ogly and always . . . hope to made another yourself!" From Mexico City he promised: ". . . Never more I will leave you. When I came back I will bring you to a plumber and let him put a ring which will enchain your leg to mine." When he learned that his wife's $500,000 case of jewels had been stolen, he wrote cheerfully: "Think if they had stoled Gloria!" In Fort Worth he refused to commit himself on exactly where he was: ". . . In an editorial . . . they criticise me as I never know that there...
...vast Merkers (Germany) salt-mine cache (TIME, April 16) was further sorted, found to contain French Impressionist Edouard Manet's In the Conservatory. The Manet was photographed riding out of the mine on a donkey-line car, its 19th-Century figures looked at curiously by G.I.s...
...cache in a Seigen (Germany) copper mine (TIME, April 16) was reported to contain Rubens' Descent to Hades, El Greco's Cross Carrier, Rembrandt's Self Portrait, Van Dyck's Holy Family, was estimated at some...