Word: stretches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Utah, section hands of the Southern Pacific will begin next week to tear up the stretch of track between Corinne and Lucin. There in 1869 the Gold Spike* (now in a San Francisco bank vault) was driven to mark the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. The track will be sold to the Navy as scrap, add to the 1,000 miles of rail tracks torn up for scrap in the U.S. in the last six months...
...invasion bridgehead, the Allies must have absolute command of the air. They must be able to cover the invasion with fighters based on Britain, and the actual offensive radius of Britain's fighter squadrons is much less than most people suppose-about 100 miles. Only the fortified stretch of German Europe along the Channel, the near Atlantic and the North Sea is within that radius...
Meanwhile, if duck hunters can solve the gas and tire problem, this season promises a full game bag. An increase of U.S. waterfowl by one-third (to upwards of 100,000,000) led Secretary of the Interior Ickes to stretch the open season to 70 days (60 last year), the daily shooting period to sunrise to sunset (sunrise to 4 p.m. in previous years). The daily bag limit remains the same...
...year soft drink business are not far from last year's all-time record, despite sugar rationing and the bottlecap shortage. Atop huge military shipments (all made from unrationed sugar), civilian sales are as big as the 80% sugar ration allows. To stretch sugar supplies, bottlers are using less cane sugar per drink, more dextrose and sorghum...
Three German armies, spearheaded by 2000 tanks, stormed a 100-mile stretch of the Don River Thursday and the Russians met them head-on in probably the greatest armored battle in history which may decide the future course of Hitler's grab for the Caucasus oil lands...