Word: wars
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...parish priest, who was old and failing, Don Giorgio climbed tirelessly up & down the mountainside, ministering to the flock. For the children he organized picnics and games, in which he himself joined. He made a bowling green for the men, and bowled with them. Villagers remembered how, after war's end, three youths wandered into a German minefield and Don Giorgio walked in boldly to give them help...
Every veteran of submarine war patrols has stories of false "enemy contacts" reported by underwater detecting devices. If the signals were only reflections of the high-frequency sound waves sent out by the sub itself, false alarms could easily be caused by whales or schools of fish. But far more baffling were the cases in which a different sound impulse was recorded. This, it seemed, might be the enemy's own detection device at work. Many a crew was called to battle stations ready for deep-sea combat, only to learn that the signals had been lost...
...method of undersea detection, highly developed in World War II, employing easily focused high-frequency sound waves near the upper edge of the audible range. A large object in the water sends back an echo; its distance from the submarine is computed by timing the echo...
This week the steel companies got in their last licks. Said Robert Patterson, ex-Secretary of War and now a lawyer representing the small companies: "The facts brought out . . . make it plain that there is no fair basis for any increase in labor cost at this time...
...Wives & War Bonds. The union's case, argued chiefly by Murray and Labor Economist Robert Nathan, was based mainly on the claim that the workers needed more money. Said Murray: "To the wife of any steelworker the high cost of living is a household reality . . . Savings have been depleted. War bonds have been cashed...