Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dodds saga began when, as a boy in Falls City, Nebraska, Gil Dodds threw a rock at a passing car. The occupant emerged and gave wrathful chase; Dodds gave him a good race, but finally succumbed. The driver turned out to be Lloyd Hahn, then a famous miler, and he was so surprised at being so nearly outrun that he forgot the damage to his car and gave Dodds his first real instruction in running...
...which was that Sitting Bull and most of his followers had already ridden off to Canada. But the Army put it into operation with vast enthusiasm. In the fall and winter of 1876 cavalrymen seized 8,567 ponies from baffled, friendly Indians, at Camp Robinson, Neb., and the Standing Rock and Cheyenne River Indian Agencies...
...would also free 895 sleeping cars for the Army, to add to its present 4,055, which include 1,239 troop sleepers owned by Defense Plant Corp. It would leave traveling civilians with what was described as a "rock bottom" of 3,000 such cars. Another 1,200 troop sleepers were to be built by the end of the year, but none of these would be ready before September...
Interesting. In Baltimore, Marine Pfc. Edmund Egbert, dutifully filling out a questionnaire, described his "most interesting" war experience: "The day I got hit I had an experience with a Jap whereas we went around and around a rock that is which led to bloodshed first his and then mine...
Moreover, with consumer goods scarce, there is little incentive to work. The prolonged celebration of V-E day (in some places it lasted a week) cost France 300,000 tons of coal. Now, coal production is Tmly about half what it was in prewar years, far below rock-bottom needs...