Word: bullets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sleek, blue Lancia with bright red wheels, pale-faced Dr. Alcide de Gasperi rode through Rome last week to the closing session of the interim consultative assembly. As the Foreign Minister's car passed the round, ancient bulk of the Castel Sant' Angelo, a pistol bullet smashed through the Lancia's front windows...
...President Leroy Grumman, who turned out the Navy's Wildcat and Hellcat fighter planes, the canoe weighs one-half to two-thirds as much as wooden canoes. A 13-footer weighs only 38 pounds, yet the thin skin is tough enough to deflect anything up to a bullet. When capsized, the canoe automatically rights itself in the water with the help of air tanks in the bow and stern. Grumman is now turning out the first order for 1,000 canoes, has orders in the offing for another 5,000. The price: slightly higher than a wooden canoe...
...newsmen scooped their col leagues last week with "exclusive" inter views with the Son of Heaven. To the Imperial Household building, which is in considerably better condition than the bomb-scarred Palace, went long-legged Frank Kluckhohn of the New York Times. Six hours later Hirohito saw bullet-headed Hugh Baillie, president of the United Press, who, like the U.P.'s biggest stock holder, Roy Howard, likes to turn legman himself once in a while...
With his ancestors' 700-year-old samurai sword buckled at the side of his faded, patched uniform, fierce, bullet-headed General Tomoyuki Yamashita came trudging out of northern Luzon's Caraballo Mountains...
...Army. They were "a weird, shambling, offbeat outfit" of white and Negro road builders, stevedores, engineers, mechanics and medics. In all their months of labor, from the winter of 1942 to the winter of 1944, they never saw an enemy plane or tank, never ducked an angry bullet. But their struggle to do an essential job under harrowing conditions is one of the epics of the war, and Joel Sayre's witty, comprehensive account (which first appeared in the New Yorker) is one of the most readable of war correspondents' books...