Word: racks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Each Stuka carries four 110-lb. or smaller bombs in racks on the wings, but its big wallop is packed under the fuselage: a 1,100-lb. or 550-lb. bomb on a rack that can be extended as the dive is begun. Reason for extension: bombs released in a dive pick up speed faster than the ship, have been known to poke their noses into the whirling prop and blow dive bomber and crew to bits. The extension guides the bomb out of the propeller...
...found that the Allies had left him to fight with an open flank and rear. (The British said Colonel Getz's superior, General Otto Ruge, understood their plan, went with them.) Furiously pursuing German airmen raked and bombarded the launches loading on Namsos' concatenated waterfront. They dumped rack after rack of bombs at transports and warships steaming away from shore. How many boatloads sank in the inferno the Nazis poured on them may not be known until the post-war opening of archives. At Gallipoli the British suffered 50,000 casualties out of 120,000 troops landed...
...pop.3,406). To it went customers who had been waiting for lockers in Emil Klinger's filled main plant. For his $10 deposit each newcomer received two keys - one to the front door and one to the locker - and the right to borrow an overcoat from the rack inside, so he won't catch cold getting his food out of his 0°-10° safe-deposit...
...this campaign. For distribution throughout the land it published a series of posters designed to make talkative Britons "tongue conscious." They show a furtive, ubiquitous little Adolf Hit ler, pencil & paper in hand, listening in to British conversations everywhere: curled up under a bus seat, in a luggage rack, against a telephone booth, under a restaurant table...
...long as we seem to be off on the track of innovations, might as well get in a mention of a couple of new ones. Victor has finally gotten a cheap but practical record rack on the market. Selling for seventy-five cents and holding twenty-four records, the rack is compact and quite durable...