Word: nonstop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fifth, like the Eighth, laid down a barrage, the most concentrated of the Italian campaign. All one day 300 Allied planes shuttled between their south Italian runways and the narrow mountain sector around Mignano, gave the Germans a galling taste of nonstop bombing and strafing. At 5:30 p.m. the land guns opened up, did not rest during the night...
Into the few hours of battle that follow, Author Forester packs enough action to guarantee nonstop reading. But his high points emerge in a fascinating commentary on the cruiser's engineering and human mechanisms...
After 73 minutes of nonstop conducting, Arturo Toscanini looked as if he had just come through the siege of Leningrad. The audience jumped up and cheered, as if it had just heard news of a Nazi defeat. Thousands of radio listeners, who in many sections had fought a losing battle with static, sighed and turned their dials...
...numbers which correspondents computed by hundreds, the R.A.F. swept by day and swatted by night. Italy's faraway golden triangle - Turin, Milan, Genoa-was bombed nonstop from England. Augsburg in Bavaria, another distant target, was bombed daringly by day. The Ruhr got it two nights. Hamburg was pasted. But the real noise and numbers were the daylight sweeps along the French coast and the invasion ports-Lorient, Le Havre, St. Nazaire, Cherbourg, Dunkirk, Calais, Rouen, carried out mainly by Spitfire-protected Hurricanes, converted to carry light bombs and nicknamed Hurribombers. One day more than 400 planes went over...
Built to make nonstop, coast-to-coast flights for TWA, the Constellation has a range of 4,000 miles, can carry 57 passengers and a crew of seven. Her four 2,500-h.p. motors can boost her along at 283 m.p.h. cruising speed (100 m.p.h. faster than present transports), can rev it up to 350 m.p.h. The Constellation will be able to streak across the continent in eight and a half hours (four and a half hours faster than TWA's fastest...