Word: pillbox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army in action or in training: such thrilling scenes as a German Panzer unit crushing and running down a group of British Tommies who are shown screaming and clutching their stomachs as they are machine-gunned to death. Or perhaps it is a German Pionier Gruppe assaulting a Russian pillbox with flamethrowers and dynamite...
...wholehearted cooperation, the air commander may find himself being seduced into giving extra ground support at the expense of sound tactical air doctrine. Then an enemy bridge stands unmolested, while the plane that ought to be bombing it is miles away, working out on a tank or a pillbox that might better be dealt with by a self-propelled...
Fate of the much-discussed "pillbox" kiosk in Harvard Square will be decided at a meeting between Cambridge police and Boston El officials next Tuesday, according to word received yesterday from the transit department at Police headquarters...
Always a sore spot in the minds of traffic officials, the kiosk was the subject of much debate recently, when a runaway bus rammed into the "pillbox" crushing two persons to death and leaving a path of injured in its wake...
...buses which will travel through the square without turning around the kiosk and which will unload and load at sidewalk platforms instead of at the center "pillbox" apron, are the Belmont, Arlington, Kendall Square, and Allston Square lines. New no parking sones in the square may be introduced as part of the project to relieve congested traffic conditions...