Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Their U.S. production-which stood at zero as late as 1928-reached 100,000,000 lb. and was headed steeply upward into...
...year-old palace the heavily fortified Japanese island of Rota. His kingdom had only one natural harbor and only one landing field. It was, thanks to the fact that certain U.S. Congressmen had not been able to see farther than the west bank of the Potomac River, unfortified. When zero hour came, Japanese warships shelled the island, setting fire to the oil reservoir and all the principal buildings. According to Japanese reports, the flag of the Rising Sun rose over Guam after one day of fighting...
...tanks and 1,000 guns are moving toward Moscow." As a matter of fact, the terrific offensive was not doing much moving that day. Russia's Army and winter were both giving it the cold shoulder. The thermometer registered 31° below zero, Fahrenheit...
...Episcopal missions, and to cover his diocese Bishop Rowe had to mush on snowshoes with a dog sled over distances as far as from Seattle to San Francisco, with no sign of life, no vegetation between mission stations. He learned to change his undershirt outdoors at 70° below zero, to walk and run as much as 50 miles a day behind his dogs, to build a fire in a blizzard, to pick off wolves too near the camp circle with a rifle...
...want in a different sense to work on the Tribune, a rival Chicago paper is about to be launched. But when Marshall Field begins working on the Tribune, the Tribune's towering Colonel Robert Rutherford Mc-Cormick will begin working on the Field paper. That will be the zero hour for a clash between two great Chicago fortunes, one originally made in Chicago's dominant department store and the other made in Chicago's dominant newspaper...