Word: yd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Picking up a .22-calibre rifle in a British munitions factory shooting gallery (30 yd.), George VI scored a bull's-eye on his first shot...
...British started digging a 13-foot ditch from the Mediterranean to the Bay of Algeciras through the flat, sandy neck (1,300 yd. wide), joining the Rock and the Spanish mainland. Evidently they had reason to expect an attack on Gibraltar, either by loud-talking Spain or by German "tourists" with whom Spain is now crawling...
...foot, 18-year-old Otto Jaretz of Chicago: the 220-yd. free style, opening race of the National A. A. U. swimming championships; in 2 min., 13 1/10 sec.; to break the U. S. record set by Johnny Weissmuller in 1927; at the seaside Coral Casino pool, Santa Barbara, Calif...
Textiles. For its growing family of soldiers, the U. S. Army began buying fabrics for uniforms. Lame old American Woolen Co. and other smaller weavers got orders for some 13,000,000 yd. of serge, overcoatings, shirtings, odds & ends. Cotton mills got orders for 930,000 yd. of khaki cotton cloth. Also placed were orders for 176,350 yd. of "army cottons by Treasury Procurement Chief Donald Marr Nelson (lately of Sears, Roebuck), past master in dealing with hundreds of small-time textile companies. Expectation was that Don Nelson might soon be doing more buying for both Army & Navy...
FIELD EVENTS Pole Vault (Trials and Final)2:00 Shot Put (Final) 2:00 Javelin Throw (Final) 2:45 High Jump (Trials and Final) 3:00 Discus Throw (Final) 3:00 Broad Jump (Final) 3:00 Hammer Throw (Final) 3:30 TRACK EVENTS 120-yd. High Hurdles (Semi-Finals) 2:45 100-yd. Dash (Semi-Finals) 2:55 One Mile Run 3:05 120-yd. High Hurdles (Heat for extra qualifiers) 3:15 440-yd. Run (Final) 3:25 120-yd. High Hurdles (Final) 3:35 100-yd. Dash (Final) 3:45 Two Mile Run 3:55 220-yd...