Word: unseen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unseen Players. The Japs ran into heroic but weak defense. Their heavy-gunned battleships closed on the U.S. escort carriers, which launched their planes, then gallantly fought with 5-inch guns while they ran a losing race to the south. The two destroyers and the destroyer escort piled in after the manner of their kind, launched torpedoes, got some hits, were sunk. But by this time part of Halsey's force had wheeled away from the northern battle and was tearing south again. Would it be in time to save the Leyte shipping from disaster...
...There is no really wild speculation. Instead of buying property sight unseen and finding it later two miles out at sea, the U.S. people have bought homes to live in, or as a hedge against inflation, or both...
There is another 155-mm. which U.S. artillerymen set much store by: a World War I gun mounted on a medium tank chassis (the M-12), making a highly mobile weapon which is used either in normal artillery fire (e.g., at unseen targets) or in direct fire, as on tanks...
There is another 155-mm. which U.S. artillerymen set much store by: a World War I gun mounted on a medium tank chassis (the M-12), making a highly mobile weapon which is used either in normal artillery fire (e.g., at unseen targets) or in direct fire, as on tanks...
...mail and 18 telegrams ordering Gimbels to hold the piece. And there were other signs that the art-buying wave was sweeping the U.S. Purchasers in St. Louis, Detroit and many another inland city have taken to mailing carte blanche orders, asking Salesman Hammer to buy for them sight unseen. One grateful woman art lover thanked Mr. Hammer for realizing her lifelong dream-of owning "a hand-painted oil painting...