Word: preventers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...range of Alexandria, began to harass the Germans to keep them from resting. His New Zealanders dove into the southern flank of the German line, pushing it back. Rommel patiently shifted one of his crack Nazi mechanized divisions from the short to the long side of his line, to prevent being hemmed in too close to the sea. Then, at dawn one morning, Auchinleck's linesmen cracked the short side, drove through a division of Italians, advanced five miles in 90 minutes and took 2,000 prisoners...
Most of these strips, much cheaper to construct than airfields, will be in coastal areas within five to 50 miles of the Army's regular fields so that planes can be widely dispersed. If enough strips are finished in time, they will help prevent defending planes from being destroyed on the ground -and so far in World War II (e.g., the Philippines, Pearl Harbor) more planes have been wrecked on the ground than shot...
...advice was given by the Journal of the American Medical Association last week. In fact, said the editor of its correspondence column, "The use of iodine or mercurials in such wounds is to be discouraged or even forbidden." Reason: antiseptics may kill more body cells than bacteria, thereby prevent healing. First Aiders should do no more than stop bleeding, place a pad of sterile gauze on the wound...
...citizens in rationed areas must apply for new cards before July 11. All will get an A book, good for 16 gallons a month, 192 gallons a year. All A books are divided into 60-day periods to prevent accumulation...
...enough that still more can be done, more often than British airmen believed possible a bare six months ago. Britain's tricky weather, its restricted airfield space, the short nights of summer and the foggy ones of winter-these and other limitations had once seemed formidable enough to prevent a single 1,000-plane raid. It will take less ingenuity, aggressive forethought and experimental courage to double and treble the 1,000 than it had taken to get off the first...