Word: mists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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They had tumbled out in the dawn at a cry from the ship's rail: "There's the Old Lady, fellas. There's the Old Lady. . . ." As the Statue of Liberty took shape through the mist, they yelled and banged fists on other men's shoulders. But they were quiet as the ship docked. On the pier they reached out like children to touch the Gray Ladies who served them food-American women...
Cassady and Jaffe got back with the information. Vandenberg's men were ready with antitank guns that travel 400 m.p.h. - P47 Thunderbolt fighter bombers. For the next four hours the Thunderbolts struck in groups of four, boring in through the mist with flak-scarred wings nearly scraping the towering hills, to drop their bombs and to rake the column with rockets. One contingent found another column of comparable size on a winding road, gave it the lethal works...
...goods is likely for a year or more to test the productive capacity of U.S. industry. With 57 million people working 7.5% fewer hours, the out put of goods would fall short by a small margin of meeting the probable demand." So prophesied Harvard's ruddy econo mist Sumner H. Slichter in Chicago last week, before some 200 regional chairmen of the Committee for Economic Development. To support his thesis Slichter fired a series of cold facts...
...River Valley. He headed the ship for a winding river bed. When the ground mist cleared we saw green, grassy fields and a little village set alongside the river. Root swung the ship in a semicircle and headed her in-"Here...
...images of vast messiness and spine-cracking effort as men move tanks, guns and ammunition from the beach into the jungle's boggy fantasia are even more impressive than the breathtaking shots made from low-flying strafers, or the magnificence of certain moments when the morning mist merges ships, men, surf, jungle into half-glimpsed symbols of men and nature...