Word: umbrellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Shore to Shore. From newly secured Saipan the weary survivors of the 2nd and 4th Marine Divisions, under their new corps commander, Major General Harry Schmidt, USMC, effected the first shore-to-shore amphibious movement of the Central Pacific offensive. In landing craft, under an umbrella of shells, they swarmed across two-and-a-half-mile Saipan Channel, quickly established two beachheads on Tinian. The island, less mountainous than Saipan or Guam, has no harbor. Its principal value would be to furnish more airstrips. The one built by the Japs had long been neutralized by artillery firing from Saipan...
Allied air power can and will sweep the invasion beaches; it cannot and will not sweep them entirely clean of heavy emplacements. They will have to be accounted for in the classical manner: gun against gun. But once landings are achieved, air power will furnish a protective umbrella for Allied troops, keep air supply lines open to advance units, cut enemy communications. Said an air general...
Reported Dead. Paul Poiret, 65, onetime dictator of fashion; in Paris. In 1898 he quit his job as umbrella salesman to design women's clothes, became the world's top-ranking designer with his creation of the hobble skirt, later blossomed out as playwright, painter, actor, coiffeur (creator of bobbed hair). Dressmaker to royalty, he came to London in 1912 at the invitation of Margot Asquith, gave a spring showing at No. 10 Downing St. Portly, pompous, dark-skinned Couturier Poiret was an autocratic extrovert, lived like an Oriental potentate in a Paris house bedecked with ibises, parrots...
...George was always busy. Twice Tory M.P. for the fashionable seaside resort of Scarborough, his chief political handicap was that he could never remember his constituents' names. When not immersed in heraldry, he spent his time sitting on a tall wooden tower in the park, a gray umbrella over his head, a telescope at his eye, figuring out his latest ideas in landscape gardening. "I don't propose to do much," Sir George would say casually, "just a sheet of water and a line of statues." He also liked practical jokes, if he was not the victim. Once...
...speed parachute, which, by regulating the size of the bellied umbrella, offers users the choice of fast or slow descent...