Word: mines
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...once began. This continued until 7 a. m., when Modlin finally hoisted the white flag. In front of Warsaw the "stop firing" order had been given on both sides for 9 a. m. and fire punctually stopped, but due to some misunderstanding the Poles resumed fire with rifles, grenades, mine throwers and machine guns at 11 a. m. Heavy German artillery opened up in a final series of crushing blows and spunky Warsaw yielded at last...
...boats. Last week two more Swedish freighters got it (one of them after the captain had been taken aboard the U-boat, given a cup of coffee and sandwiches), and it became Norway's turn, too, with three Britain-bound pulpsters sunk, two by torpedoes, one by a mine. Sweden protested bitterly, shut down her pulp business temporarily, threatened as sharply as she dared to cut off her shipments of iron ore to Germany* if Germany did not cut out sinking her ships...
Hello nephews, nieces mine...
...last war anti-submarine warfare started from scratch. At one time Britain tried to train seals to hunt submarines. Various more practical expedients were tested-mine barriers, nets,-"mystery ships" (disguised trawlers and other craft which pretended to flee from submarines, then suddenly unmasked guns when the pursuing U-boats came close). Most effective defense against submarines was found to be the convoy. But the British wanted to hunt down the subs and destroy them. The problem was that of a blind man groping for a frog in a fishpond. So the British decided to use ears instead of eyes...
...coal industry was under pressure to supply domestic customers anxious to pile up stocks at pre-war prices; needy belligerents and neutrals who formerly bought from England or Germany. Last week the Norfolk & Western Railway which taps the mines of West Virginia and Kentucky carried 20,845 cars of coal, just 48 cars less than its all time record in the boom week of March 27, 1937. Any further increases in production are limited by: 1) the fact that many mines have not now the man power or machine power to shift to a six-day week; 2) such coal...