Word: tins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Beaufighters tangled with the Messerschmitts, torpedo carriers bored in on the Eugen. At least one tin fish got home, struck her fairly. A "great pillar of dirty black smoke" gushed from her superstructure and she shuddered under two mighty explosions. In the hurlyburly, Beaufighters swung down out of the sky, plastered the destroyers with bomb and machine gun and the force streaked for home. The British reported losing nine planes, knocking down five Germans. Said Berlin: "Unsuccessful-British losses 29 planes...
...Home Guard had not always been respectable. It rose like a garish, un-British emanation from the bomb rubble of 1940's blitz. In those days its members practiced slitting throats with cheese cutters on gloomy Sunday mornings, reached out eager hands for nonexistent tommy guns, concocted tin-can explosives in the basement and took a desperate delight in the macabre techniques of Spanish Civil War guerrillas. But by last week the Home Guard had dressed ranks and counted off: on its second birthday, King George VI himself, the trade-mark of British character, became the Home Guard...
canmaker, cut its second-quarter payment 50% to 25?, blamed it on the loss of civilian can business (because of the tin shortage) and on higher taxes...
This ends a definite stage of the war as now all the rice, salt, oil and tin are in Japanese hands, and what remains of Burma will make it difficult to support large armies and the hordes of helpless refugees streaming northward. The plane is going...
Last week the situation was made worse by the arrival of bland May weather bringing smooth Atlantic seas. It was ideal for Axis U-boatmen, who could spot the smoke smudges of their quarry a long way off, and fire their tin fish with accuracy when they closed for the kill. The menace of the submarine in U.S. waters was likely to get more serious before it was liquidated...