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Word: subs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sights too low, left one end of the building open for extensions. Without any nod from Washington, he turned an engineer loose on a V12 liquid-cooled engine of his own. He started putting up Willow Run on the sole basis of a relatively small order for sub-assemblies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battle of Detroit | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Survivors of a sunken U.S. tanker told of a submarine that callously ran down two lifeboats and a liferaft. But another sub commander gallantly permitted a fully lighted neutral vessel to approach a sinking freighter and pick up survivors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC: Closer & Closer | 3/23/1942 | See Source »

Herbert Agar, Editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, in testimony before the Senate Sub-Committee on the Anti-Poll Tax Bill, said, "Our most numerous allies in this war the colored peoples...if we lose those allies--if we lost Asia--we are likely to lose the war. The only way to keep Asia on our side is to show that we believe in the American ideal that all men are created equal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MAIL | 3/18/1942 | See Source »

Fourteen heavy Japanese bombers in two formations raided Port Darwin, northwest Australia, again Monday and there were increasing indications today that the Nipponese would attempt to occupy the entire Australian sub-continent...

Author: By United Press., | Title: Over the Wire | 3/17/1942 | See Source »

Reporting that the Allies could expect no earthquake of sufficient intensity to disturb the Japanese war effort, L. Donald Leet, assistant professor of Seismology dismissed the tremor in the Sea of Japan two days ago as a "routine, almost sub-normal" quake, of which the Harvard seismographs got a clear record...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Allies Can't Hope For Major Quakes To Slow Japanese | 3/10/1942 | See Source »

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