Word: trainloads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet Union officer reported, gingerly disconnected booby traps from chimney pots, sacks of potatoes, haystacks, fresh loaves of bread-even from crying infants. But the mines did not delay the Red Army long, and the Germans had to abandon many of their supply dumps. Food and ammunition by the trainload fell into Russian hands. On a single airfield in the south the Reds captured 19 undamaged planes. Near Bryansk, they seized land mines stacked in Teutonically neat mounds...
...Berlin the architects of the New Order promptly canceled the return of the first trainload of French war prisoners promised in exchange for French labor...
...into thermite for millions of incendiary bombs, some of which probably smashed down on Essen and Emden last week. At the same time that the old aluminum was at last coming to an honorable end, Manhattan's smart Gimbel Brothers' store was advertising at cut prices a trainload of brand-new aluminum pots & pans still available from pre-war stocks...
...fine enough to give Germany a look at the fiery face of the future. From British fields the mightiest air armada man had ever seen thundered across the channel, swept through German anti-aircraft defenses. Over Cologne (pop. 768,000), fifth largest city of the Reich, they dropped a trainload of bombs...
...rose North American Aviation President James Howard ("Dutch") Kindelberger, a purple talker. Before a trainload of newsmen ogling his vast Kansas City plant, he flatly accused the automakers of fumbling their part of the plane program. Said he: "After 16 months we have not yet received a single part made by the automotive industry. . . . The biggest mistake ever made was to try to break in high-production organizations to airplane-manufacturing methods. ... If they don't catch up soon we're going to start turning out the parts ourselves...