Word: swathes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...R.A.F. deals the smashing blows to the body, the U.S. Eighth Air Force the precision blow to the heart. The Stirlings, Halifaxes and Lancasters that carry bombs in British night raids saturate an entire target area, hitting at German production and German morale indiscriminately. In a wide swath of smoking destruction the R.A.F may leave untouched factories on the outskirts of a city, or plants whose isolated location makes them difficult to hit. The precision bombers of the U.S. are sent over to get such factories by daylight. By this combination of forces not only the periphery of German production...
...singer, Lillian Russell might have cut a minor swath at the Metropolitan. Trained in opera from infancy, she claimed to be able to negotiate high Cs eight times a performance, seven performances a week. But when Nellie Melba told Lillian to stick to the music halls, where her reign was absolute, she took the advice...
...came a pessimistic crop report from the Department of Agriculture. Under weeks of spring rains, said the report, a wide 1,500-mile swath curving from Oklahoma to Michigan and northern New York-one-quarter of all U.S. crop acreage -was now drenched. Some 4,000,000 acres had been flooded and knocked out of production for weeks. Farther west, in southwestern Kansas, South Dakota and the great pasture lands from Texas to southern Colorado, there was drought. Over the nation, crop prospects were the poorest in three years-result of the most unseasonable spring in years...
...revenue bill is expected to yield $8,525,000,000 (total Treasury revenues will be boosted from $17,500,000,000 to $26,000,000,000), to increase the number of direct taxpayers from 28,000,000 to 44,000,000. So wide is the swath that only Army privates and some domestic servants and farmhands will escape being mowed down. Significant provisions...
...Great Lakes Naval Training Station had the best football team in the U.S. This year a new generation of Great Lakes footballers, recruited from recent All-Americas, may go to the Rose Bowl again. But if physical fitness, mental discipline and the will-to-win cut any swath on a football field, the steam rollers that should blitz this year's college elevens will come from the Navy's four preflight training centers: St. Mary's, University of Iowa, University of Georgia, University of North Carolina...