Word: unitization
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...days on Okinawa the 96th Division had stood stymied before Hen Hill, a knobby 450-ft. crag just northeast of Shuri. Crouching in foxholes, trenches and caves, the Japanese could rake the flanks of any unit attempting to move around the hill. Two battalions had taken turns charging up; both had failed-with heavy casualties...
Britons learned for the first time last week of the Guy Fawkes Club (officially, the Westminster Munitions Unit). For more than two years some 150 wives of Ministers, M.P.s, clerks of the Lords and Commons, cleaners, custodians and councilors have been making weapons of war in the massive vaults beneath the Houses of Parliament, where in 1605 Guy Fawkes was caught among the 36 gunpowder kegs with which he planned to blow up Britain's lawmakers. From 9 in the morning till 9 at night the air-conditioned dungeon hums to the sound of precision machines. Last year...
...biggest unit of the world's biggest home movers is, quite naturally, in movable Los Angeles. Son Martin established it in 1895, with a one-horse wagon that carried the furniture of land speculators over a dust-choked, rutty road from Los Angeles to San Diego. Time : five days...
...belong to the Class of 1945, 55 to the Class of 1946, and four to the Class of 1947, while 16 are members of classes prior to that of 1945 who are finishing out the course. Twenty of the graduates are members of the V-12 Unit and of the NROTC...
Instantly all parties protested. Cried the Communist L'Unità: an "intimidating maneuver." Sighed the monarchist Italia Nuova: a "regrettable incident." Embarrassed, the Allied military authorities released Nenni, hinted that his arrest was due to the excessive zeal of an Allied...