Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mice & Near-Misses. Burgomaster Witschey felt that, with the mills humming, the town itself could make some plans for simple reconstruction. One day in 1944, 600 of Nijverdal's homes were damaged or destroyed by the near-misses of Allied bombers attacking a German V-2 launching platform just back of town. With the mills hardly running at all, the town had been too poor to do much about repairs. Nijverdal could remedy that now. Burgomaster Witschey hoped for renovation of the down-at-heel town hall, too: a couple of months ago, mice nibbled through his desk drawer...
...Witschey's civic improvement plans are regarded as encouraging in Nijverdal. But "Marshall help" means something more personal than that. A slippered housewife made the point succinctly. "From 1931 to 1936," she said, "there wasn't much work at the mill. Jan dug peat. Almost the whole town dug peat. If Jan loses his job again, I don't think we would get over...
Commander-in-Chief Liu Shih flew down to the grey-walled rail town of Pengpu on the Huai's south bank, to set up a new operational base. Deputy Commander Tu Yu-ming led the march overland with three "army groups" (about 110,000 combat troops), commanded by Generals Li Mi, Chiu Ching-chuan and Sun Yuan-liang. The leader of a fourth army group, General Huang Po-tao, was left a suicide on the field where his 90,000 men had been encircled and cut to pieces. Behind the withdrawing Nationalists, over Suchow's blasted ammunition dumps...
...Heavyweight Champion Jim Jeffries, who lives quietly on his farming and dairy ranch near Burbank, Calif., came out of his shell for the holiday season to serve as the town's official Santa Claus...
Young Edbury Hatch had just picked the wrong trade. When he was a boy in Newcastle, Me., the town had supported ten busy shipyards and every new vessel needed a carved figurehead. But by 1870, when William Southworth discharged Hatch, business was starting to fall...