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Word: wolfed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kenneth Fremont-Smith, of Cambridge and Matthews; James E. McNutty, of Oak Park, Illinois and Thayer; David B. Moseley, of Buffalo and Wigglesworth; Donald I. Perry, of Apley; Stanley Rich, of New York and Stoughton; Joseph H. Sharlitt, of Cleveland and Hollis; Dean Hennessy, of Chicago and Matthews; William Wolf, of Dorchester; Andrew J. Wright, of Columbus, Ohio, and Holworthy...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PBH Selects Thirteen After '45 Competition | 12/2/1941 | See Source »

...Government has been reamed of several million dollars ... a project gone to hell." So moaned fox-faced Senator Harry Truman last week after hearing witnesses describe construction of the Army's Wolf Creek Ordnance Plant and Milan Ordnance Depot being built 100 miles from Memphis in the Tennessee hills. The Truman Committee, tirelessly investigating defense expenditures, had heard similar charges before in connection with other Army construction projects (TIME, Sept. 15). But the Memphis testimony reached a few new highs. Some of the accusations made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: More Dirt | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...acre plant and depot grounds are 195 miles of 16-foot, blacktop asphalt road, already cracking. Cost: $29,000 a mile; the average concrete road would have cost under $25,000. Two parallel roads lie only 75 feet apart, one on the Milan project, the other on the Wolf Creek project. Snorted Senator Truman: $149,000 wasted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUILDING: More Dirt | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

...come from coal-easy-riding. full-loading traffic on which any railroad should make money. Then came defense. Since 1939 at least 130 new industries have camped at L. & N.'s roadside. These include giants like TVA's Godwin, Tenn. phosphate plant (4,800 carloads annually), the Wolf Creek ordnance plant at Milan, Tenn. Moreover, L. & N. now hauls soldiers, food and equipment directly to twelve Army camps and nine air bases, indirectly to many more...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Preparedness Pays | 12/1/1941 | See Source »

Conceding that Britain's July-August losses were "relatively low," Germans talked knowingly of a sudden upward spurt, boasted of a vastly augmented submarine fleet, "new weapons" and improved tactical methods, new fully trained submarine crews. They promised additional and expanded U-boat wolf packs, and pointed out that long winter nights are a prime U-boat advantage, since subs usually remain submerged during the day, fight from the surface at night...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Hunger Gets a Brush Off | 11/24/1941 | See Source »

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