Word: wood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Sweden, anticipating the blockade, had stored two-year supplies of fats, fodder, fertilizer, but forgot gasoline, prepared to substitute charcoal gas generators for gasoline motors. Booming were iron ore shipments to Germany; hard hit were Swedish sawmills and pulp mills whose chief customers were British. Closed were big wood products factories on the Gulf of Bothnia. But Germany was trading coal from newly-seized Polish mines for Swedish fish, berries, iron...
Built of wire, wood, earth and some concrete, the Siegfried Position consisted of barbed wire entanglements, behind which came intrenchments and pillboxes connected with secondary intrenchments. Behind these were independent forts and strong points. From these, reserve troops, stationed far enough in the rear to be out of reach of enemy artillery, could be thrust out in any direction in counterattacks when the attacking enemy was exhausted by its advance. At this point the zonal defense system became an ideal means of launching a powerful offensive...
...found the Whitney Museum's selection of 20th-century painting already turning tamely classic could rush off to the Associated American Artists' businesslike galleries, where to most of the 58 members of An American Group, Inc. classic was a fighting word. Their exhibition of paintings, sculpture and wood carvings was as up-to-the-minute as an air raid, often as violent and savage...
Assistant coaches: Lyal W. Clark, line; Wesley E. Fesler, end; John L. Wood, backfield; Vernon H. Struck '38, assistant backfield...
Assistant manager: Arthur T. Wood...