Word: roughly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...That shortage is rapidly being met. Expansion under way will boost aluminum 1942 output to 1,450,000,000 lb. (1939: 327,000,000 lb.), and 1943 plans call for 2,000,000,000 lb., including 300,000,000 lb. from Canada. At a rough average of 13,000 lb. of aluminum per plane, 60,000 planes will take less than 800,000,000 lb. But aluminum is needed for many things besides planes...
...Pampanga plain. Filipino and U.S. soldiers agreed that he was going to have a hell of a time entrenching himself there, a still tougher time moving south. As on the road from Baguio, the hills still hemmed him in in all his forward positions, and the country is rough, tough and thorny...
...years old, it has sold thousands of square-hooded, locomotive-like behemoths to lumbermen, miners, oilmen, highway departments. In the Louisiana oil fields M-H trucks are called "Mud Cats" because they slosh through hub-deep mud as though equipped with web wheels, in Western lumber camps they climb rough 40° grades so easily they are known as "Mountain Goats." In all, M-H has 33 models, going from five to 35 tons with six driving wheels, twelve forward and four reverse speeds. Special jobs include $130,000, 12-wheel, 65-ton giants used to build pipelines...
DOUBLE OR QUITS-A. A. Fair-< Morrow ($2). Accidental poisoning of a California doctor looks queer to pint-sized Donald Lam, who clears it up in his own rough, ready and staccato fashion. The plot is more intricate than in earlier Lam tales; the solving just as good or better...
...fooling any more, and our enemies have indicated that they want to play rough and dirty. Unless we (American and British) forget "the playing fields of Eton," and the "Rover Boys," we are walking around with our chin hanging...