Word: trooped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...commanders, in which he urged a boycott of Jewish merchants because that would "be punishing the Jews in a way the race dislikes...." His recall encouraged moderate Zionist leaders, but extremists were unappeased. They provided the occasion for Webb's outburst, exploding three bombs in rapid succession near troop roadblocks and injuring eleven Tommies, one civilian...
...Queen Elizabeth was launched in the Clyde in 1938. But before she could be fully fitted, war turned her into a troop-carrier. Her wartime passenger total: 811,324. Reconditioning of the world's biggest liner began last March. In went 21,000 pieces of furniture, ten miles of carpeting, carloads of art works...
First Concession. Perhaps the most crucial focal point of Big Three troop concentrations is Germany. For months, the U.S. and Britain have brought well substantiated charges that the Soviet Army is spurring production of war materials in Germany's Soviet zone. (Excerpts from a long bill of particulars: V-weapons are being made at Sömmerda near Erfurt, at Halle, at Nordhausen and in the South Harz; fuel for V-weapons at Leuna; aircraft at Gotha; machine-gun parts at Leipzig; tank chains at Plagwitz; Red Army uniforms at Plauen...
Tough as it was for G.I.s, postwar readjustment has been even tougher for wartime troop ships. Last week the U.S. Maritime Commission sadly reported that no one seemed to want the nation's No. 1 luxury liner, the S.S. America, very much. Finished too late (August 1940) to go into transatlantic service, she made only a few West Indies cruises before the Government converted her into a troop transport. As the West Point, she traveled some 500,000 miles with 350,000 servicemen...
...orita Kruger, you go to school day and night and you also act in the cine; when do you find time to do your spying?" Weekending in summery Cuernavaca, Hilda was called on by the town police. Hotel servants had dug out of her luggage suspicious accounts of troop movements: notes from her university course on Cortés' conquest of Mexico...