Word: yardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rose Island (TIME, May 2), the shell-pocked British frigate Amethyst had been blockaded 140 miles up the Yangtze River from Shanghai, with 86 men of her original crew of 192 still aboard. The Communists kept 105-mm. howitzers constantly trained on the Amethyst at a murderous 400-yard range. The colonel commanding the batteries had warned the Amethyst's captain: "If you move, I'll sink you instantly...
...defiance of Vichy's orders, De Lattre was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment at Riom. His wife smuggled him a small metal saw hidden in a bunch of flowers and a ten-yard rope wrapped in his laundry. He escaped, went underground and, hiding behind a freshly grown beard, made his way to London and Algiers, where he joined De Gaulle's Free French. He took over Army "B" (later the French First Army), landed it in the south of France and took it up the Rhone valley to the Rhine and the Danube. The First became...
...idea for making plastic nails for other women similarly afflicted. One day last February, Mr. Haigh suggested they drive down to a factory he had in Crawley, Sussex. Three days later Haigh reported that Mrs. Durand-Deacon had never met him and never returned to the hotel. Scotland Yard sent out a routine tracer...
British reporters soon found that Scotland Yard was also investigating the disappearance of a wealthy retired official named Donald McSwan, his wife Amy and their son William, Dr. Archibald Henderson, well-to-do proprietor of a doll hospital, and his pretty young wife, Rose...
...bran poisoned with chlordane or toxaphene) is so much more effective that five Ibs. per acre is enough unless the hoppers are almost full-grown. The biggest plane in use, a DC-3, spreads 20,000 acres every day. Since there are from 35 to 100 hoppers per square yard in the outbreak areas, a single DC-3 can kill several billions daily...