Word: packets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this advice many a Victory gardener said "Hmmm," thoughtfully purchased another packet of lettuce seeds...
...long journey from London, and they were many days old. But they still were full of the only news fit for a Briton of Sir Henry's stamp. His heavy face intent, his huge body hunched and at ease, Sir Henry took up the oldest issue in the packet. He read it through, column by column, then proceeded to the next issue, and the next, in scrupulous chronological sequence. Refreshed, restored and as well up on events as a man so far from London could be, Sir Henry returned to his job of building the army which...
Target is a full, authentic, minute record of an R.A.F. bombing raid on Germany-from the telltale packet of negatives parachuted to English earth by a reconnaissance plane to the last homing bomber groaning down onto the flare-lit runway in the dirty dawn. Its actors are those happy few to whom Britain and the democracies owe so much: the members of the R.A.F. There is not a ham in the cast...
...high speed in the 400-m.p.h. bracket, a 1,000-mile range equaled by few European single-engined fighters. Ahead in many ways of anything in the air, with its clean design and high aerodynamic efficiency, the Airacobra is likely to get bomber-escort jobs in its packet of missions. While Builder Larry Bell and U.S. air chiefs awaited further dope on the 'Cobras' performance, Britain's Airacobra pilots were anxiously waiting to get into a scrap that would supply...
...Ohio River captain named Gordon C. Greene doubled his packet fleet by building the Argand. His wife, a country storekeeper's daughter who learned to steer a boat on her honeymoon, took out a master's license, got behind the Argand's wheel, started it splashing up & down the Ohio...