Word: shiftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midsummer night, So silent Danes drove up in borrowed trucks before the gates of Copenhagen's Dansk RiÜel Syndikat, leading manufacturers of automatic rifles for German use. The Danes disarmed the guards, cut the phone lines, ran through the plant buildings calling out the night shift. Then they carefully planted 15 bombs, set the fuses, started the factory sirens and sped away. The detonations did Danish hearts good. The damage was "formidable," Free Danes said, and the ensuing fire got wholly out of hand. It was the biggest job of sabotage to date...
Make-up Editor Bob Boyd had just put the regular edition to bed. The teletypesetter circuits were still open, so Boyd was able to flash the word at once to all our printers to shift over to their D-day plan. All work stopped on the old Battlefronts form; instead the electrotypers began rushing extra plates of the other news sections. When our presses started running at the usual hour Tuesday morning, the extra plates enabled us to turn out these other sections at twice the usual rate-so that all the presses would be clear that night...
...miles from the Red lines lay the border of Norway and beyond, the rich nickel mines that are an essential part of the German war economy. Dietl had better hold fast at Norway's back door. The Finnish troops on the Karelian Isthmus were likely to have to shift for themselves...
Brewster employes dramatically forced an answer. At the urging of their union (C.I.O. United Auto Workers), all but 200 of the day shift stayed at work, even after the night shift came on. Since there was too little work for two crews, some workers played ping-pong and shuffleboard, danced to the music of piano, brass and drum. The union sent in enough sandwiches, pies, doughnuts, coffee and soda pop for a five-day siege. Some of the stay-ins crowded out on the balconies, hanging signs: "We've Got the Tools. We've got the Ability...
Brother's Advice. Pokryshkin's mother still lives in Novosibirsk, with the youngest of her four sons. She is a plain old peasant woman, proud of her sons. Recently she wrote to Alexander: "Your brother [also an airman] wants to shift to your unit." Replied Alexander: "Let him prove his mettle...