Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manchuria the Communists pressed their military advantage. Last week, only a month and a half after their fall offensive ended, they were hammering the approaches to Mukden again, despite four-foot snow and cold that dipped to 30° below zero. The Reds did not have to storm Mukden, it probably would be enough to keep the garrison cold and isolated for the big push next spring...
...TIME, March 3), still probably the game's No. 1 player; Boucher's up-&-coming Rangers have speed and depth; Detroit the league's best defense. The Boston Bruins, though weak on defense, have had few goals scored against them, largely because of incomparable Frank ("Mr. Zero") Brimsek, a goalie who has the knack of always being...
...questioned the desirability of decentralization and explained that this part of our policy failed largely because the bi-zonal military administration as well as German party organizations tend strongly towards the opposite. Concluding, he stated that deindustrialization was becoming "reindustrialization," but that German war potential had been reduced to zero...
Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace...
Last week Benny Meyers would have been better off at 30,000 feet with a Zero on his tail. Hughes had testified that Meyers had asked him for a postwar job, and for a $200,000 loan to buy some $10,000,000 in war bonds on margin. Neil McCarthy, ex-Hughes executive, declared that Meyers told him "he had the same kind of deal with other people...