Word: twinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...between them and the beach, with concentrated fire. Above this steel ceiling, observation and pursuit planes ranged. Below, from cannily de signed motherships, barges laden with troops and equipment slid into the sea, ready to go as soon as they hit water. These barges varied in type. Some were twin-keeled open boats, carrying no to 120 armed men. The barges had bow flaps which became runways for light artillery and tanks, with V-shaped hulls to deflect enemy fire. One type of barge had an airplane propeller instead of a water-screw, so that it could operate...
...five remaining league affairs, plus about seven extra points, he would be able to beat the all-time season scoring mark set by Gts Broberg of Dartmouth at 108. As it is now, he has to get 26 points in two games to catch up to the twin scorer from Hanover, Olsen and Munroe...
Dedicated on Tuesday by President Comacho of Mexico, the observatory boasts a telescope that was constructed under the direction of members of the department. It was intended to be an exact twin of an instrument already installed here, but the builders over-estimated the amount that would be required to trim the edges of the lends, and so unintentionally produced what has been long hailed as the largest telescope of its kind in the world...
...They produce enough milk through enough functional nipples-four or more-to feed their twins. Most other sheep have only two nipples, which can scarcely nourish twins and which thus militates against a race of twin-bearers...
...their regular business. > General Motors has received $769,300,000 in new war orders since Jan. 1, bringing its total war backlog to nearly $2 billions. President Charles E. Wilson said G.M. could & would handle 10% of the whole U.S. war program. > Because of tire rationing for private cars, Twin Coach Co.'s Ross Schram predicted that city transit vehicles which carried 15 billion riders last year may soon have to carry 20 billion. > The Northwest's third largest industry after lumber and fishing is tourists. Foreseeing a poor year, Oregon last week canceled its $100,000 tourist...