Word: scratchings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...badly equipped. MacArthur ordered Wainwright to put into effect War Plan Orange, the 20-year-old strategy for a withdrawal to the Bataan Peninsula and Corregidor Island, where the defenders would wait for help from the U.S. He fell back skillfully, but there was no rescue in prospect.With his scratch army he conducted five months of resistance against the enemy's first team...
...prisoner, for another period equal at least to that of his sentence; anyone sentenced for more than eight years had to remain in the colony for life. About all that differentiated the libérés from the prisoners was the fact that the freed men had to scratch and beg for their living, while the prisoners at least got fed. Money or influence might buy a man special privileges, but there was no honest way to earn them. One of the most ironically successful prisoners in the colony was a onetime mutinous soldier who managed to buy himself...
...gets The Spirit of St. Louis built in 60 days. In the meanwhile, Flyers Clarence Chamberlin and Bert Acosta, preparing for a hop of their own, set a new endurance record, staying aloft 51 hrs. 11 min. 25 sec. Lindbergh frets, but death, accidents and delay soon begin to scratch the other entries. Two Navy pilots nose into a swamp on take-off and are killed. Chamberlin damages his Bellanca in a routine test flight. Commander Richard E. Byrd, with his Fokker and four-man crew all set, waits at Roosevelt Field for the word from the weatherman...
...Scratch Three Killers. To the U.S. Navy's submarine force, the fate of Harder, immobilized at a New London pier, seemed unhappily symbolic of a whole accumulation of woes and ills which has beset the "silent service" since the end of World War II. Harder is one of six new attack submarines equipped with novel lightweight diesel engines which the Navy's Bureau of Ships adopted over the protest of many submariners. All six ships have had engine problems comparable to Harder's, and are now being newly designed for an older-type engine. The Bureau...
...that the school had virtually none of these things to offer. Instead, it said, prospective students would have to count on building most of the plant themselves. Nonetheless, last week nine sturdy teen-aged students were already out in Colorado paying $350 for the privilege of creating-practically from scratch-the Colorado Rocky Mountain School...