Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...East's oil shortage suddenly grew desperate. Weather and war were the prime causes. Midwestern floods (see p. 20) washed out rails, covered highways, broke the Big Inch pipeline near Little Rock, Ark., cutting off a flow of some 200,000 bbl. per day. Meantime black-market sales were draining away thousands of barrels a day for illegal use. Passenger motoring was on the rise. Farmers were rushing to finish weather-delayed spring planting; tractors began to run dry from Maine to Virginia...
...many areas U.S. soldiers, summoned from training stations, labored for sleepless days & nights to rescue those marooned by flood. Other soldiers (7,000 in the Little Rock, Ark. area alone) toted sandbags in efforts, mostly futile, to strengthen levees. The presence of Axis war prisoners in Missouri was disclosed officially for the first time when gangs of men with great white initials "P.W." stenciled on the backs of their jackets and on their trouser legs, turned up to work on a levee near St. Genevieve...
Seventeen days out of their embarkation port, in the early subarctic dawn, crowded American troop transports raised the headlands of the bleak volcanic island. Mothered by destroyers, fleets of tank lighters nursed their way through rock-infested bays in fog so thick that a ship was blotted out 100 yards away...
...bold youths-James Rogers and James Roarty-waded out waist-deep, fixed a rope to the mine's horns. Up on the beach the crowd heaved-ho. Inshore wallowed the sinister machine until, suddenly, it bumped a rock. In the black roar of the explosion, Rogers and Roarty were blown to bits, 16 others were killed, 40 Ballymanus houses were damaged...
...fourth day, it was to prepare for a fresh offensive. By that time the men were so tired that, as one battalion commander, Lieut. Colonel Ben Sternberg, put it, "if you'd told a man a German was on the other side of a rock he wouldn't have given a damn." But, the Colonel added, "we could have held that stinking ground...