Word: third
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...require 18,000 pilots. The Jacksonville base, at first, will turn out only 50 a month. But by next July Jack Towers hopes to enroll 200 students a month in each of the two schools, as signing 3,000 graduates a year to tactical organizations. Still abuilding is a third school, at Corpus Christi, Tex., to be commissioned early in 1942, with an initial capacity of 100 students a month...
Pounding forward in chase of a third, the Ajax began to ship water through her forward plates, was forced to reduce speed. In the murk before dawn she suddenly came on an Italian squadron of one heavy cruiser and four destroyers. Opening up again at long range, she staggered one destroyer with a shot through the hull. As the crippled destroyer lost way, another slipped her a towline, started spewing out a smoke screen. By now the Ajax (which the Italians claimed to have sunk) had begun calling up support. But before the heavy cruiser York could arrive, the faster...
Illinois took Harmon's kickoff but punted after two plays. From Michigan's 32, Harmon and Nelson advanced the ball to Illinois's 23. Then Harmon, on a lateral from Nelson, slithered around left end for 20 yards. On third down, Harmon cut back through right tackle for Michigan's second touchdown. The game was less than ten minutes...
...opponent in one minute flat, football fans want Harmon to run 95 yards at least once in every game. In Michigan's first game of the season (against California), Harmon ran back the opening kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown, wriggled 72 yards for another, 86 for a third. Against Michigan State and Harvard he was less spectacular, but ran up the score. Last week Bob Zuppke's boys, pledged to do or die for 34 the ghost of old Red Grange, ganged up on Harmon just as they did a year ago. Though he never got loose...
...victim. But Austria, which had not recovered from World War I, did not bring Germany much because her own industries were fed by imports. So were Czecho-Slovakia's. From both of them Germany got an annual supply of nearly 4,000,000 tons of iron ore (a third of her own production). In the event that Germany should be bombed out of the Ruhr, Austria's iron and steel industry at Graz, CzechoSlovakia's well-developed heavy industry near Prague (including the mighty Skoda munitions works at Pilsen) will be important...