Word: scratch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...around officer Britain has. The first was Commander of the Mobile Division in 1937-38. Just when he had mastered tank, antitank and armored car technique, for which he had great enthusiasm, War Secretary Hore-Belisha switched him into the Anti-Aircraft Corps Command. He found it a scratch bunch of guns without instruments, searchlights or coordination. In a year he smoothed and built it into seven highly efficient up-to-date divisions...
...soldiers ever have to fight in Central or South America, large quantities of yellow-fever vaccine will be needed. The U. S. hoard of that must start almost from scratch. Surgeon General Thomas Parran recently observed that there was hardly enough yellow-fever vaccine actually on hand to immunize a single regiment...
...that the sapphire-tipped pickup will play a disc 700 times without damage; that the sapphire will survive 30,000 to 40,000 playings-about eight years of normal use. At a Manhattan demonstration, the pickup was dropped sharply upon a record, scraped roughly across its surface, made no scratch. Tone quality: about the same as in other mass-production machines...
...moment that followed, Admiral Le Luc wiped tears from his cheeks. There was a sound of a pen scratching, a sentence spoken in French: "Monsieur le General, la plume," the scratch of a second signature. It was 6:50 p.m.. German summer time...
...Hundreds of new stations. When the FCC decision came through, 22 FM permits had already been allotted, several stations were in the process of being constructed. When FCC issues new licenses, these 22 and 135 other applicants who are now clamoring to operate FM stations will all start from scratch...