Word: tracing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...their rooms have been broken into and all their season tickets stolen. In order to compensate for their loss and also to try to discover the guilty party, the H.A.A. has issued special passes to the unlucky persons and has detailed a special squad of officers to try to trace the missing tickets. All suspicious persons will he thoroughly questioned by the authorities...
...Only trace of the old lettering system was a tendency for some types of ships to be given names beginning with initial of their maker...
...Still being paged by the British was explosion-whiskered Haj Amin El-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. They want to see him about some Arab riots in Palestine and a revolt in Iraq last spring. The Russians were trying to trace a character known as Roman Gamotta, believed to be a German onetime naval officer who cannot let sleepy Arabs lie. That neither could be found did not add to the royal boots-man's popularity with the Allies...
...grace of God the Greer was not hit. Had a torpedo struck her fragile steel plates (just thick enough to keep fish out) the Greer, commanded by Lieut. Commander Laurence H. Frost, might have been sunk without a trace. But already she was racing up the torpedo tracks, her mechanical ears searching for the submarine. When they indicated that the U-boat was directly underneath, depth charges began to drop overboard from the Greer. The U.S. Navy was engaged...
...California mining sites, of which no trace remains, can often be relocated by nearby thickets of ailanthus trees. A University of California scientist made the discovery and found the reason: in gold-rush days, Chinese cooks, laundrymen and coolies planted the ailanthus, known to them as "tree of heaven," to remind them of home...