Word: sending
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...them, they eagerly grasped at two legends: 1) Captain Colin Kelly had sunk the Jap battleship Haruna by plunging his Flying Fortress "almost into the mouths of flaming Japanese guns"; 2) Major James P. S. Devereux, when asked if his handful of embattled Wake Island marines needed help, radioed: "Send us more Japs...
...smallest of Britain's Crown colonies, Gibraltar (area, 2 sq. mi.; pop. 19,278) took a firm stand against the liquidation of the British Empire. At the foot of the Rock, a mass meeting voted last week to send three delegates on a mission to London. Their mandate: to have "Gib" incorporated in metropolitan Britain, 1,200 miles away...
...fighting '30s, the plan was one of strategic bombing strikes in key plants. Said Reuther: ''We can send thousands of the 325,000 G.M. workers . . . on fishing trips while a few hundred close one plant." He kept the names of the plants to himself, but every G.M. worker knew that the Fisher Body plants headed the list. Without bodies, G.M. could make no cars...
General George S. Patton Jr. slipped into the act just at the last moment: the General had his picture taken astride a white horse (see cut) which Hitler had intended to send to the Emperor...
Detroit was typical. There, 4,500 struck at Kelsey-Hayes Wheel Co., forcing the Ford Motor Co. to send 30,000 home and shut down temporarily. A strike of 500 at Hudson Motor Car Co. threw another 6,000 out of work. All across the nation, strikes mushroomed faster than the War Labor Board could keep track of them, much less track down the reasons for all of them...