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121McLean Gardens, Washington, D.C. — Map of Washington, D.C., with McLean Gardens highlighted in maroon. McLean Gardens is a residential neighborhood in Northwest Washington, D.C., bounded by Rodman Street NW to the north, Idaho Avenue to the south, Wisconsin Avenue to the east, and …
122Midway, San Diego — The Midway area, also called the North Bay area, is a neighborhood of San Diego, California. It is located at the northern (mainland) end of the Point Loma peninsula, northwest of Downtown San Diego and just west of Old Town. It is often… …
123NewHolly, Seattle — Unofficial map of Holly Park as defined by the City Clerk s Seattle Neighborhood Atlas NewHolly (formerly Holly Park) is a neighborhood in southeast Seattle, Washington, USA.[1] Holly Park was built in the 1940s to house defense workers and… …
124destruct — (v.) to destroy, 1958, probably a back formation from DESTRUCTION (Cf. destruction) in the jargon of U.S. aerospace and defense workers to refer to deliberate destruction of a missile in flight by a friendly agent; popularized 1966 in form self… …
125National Housing Agency — (NHA) The NHA was established in 1942 to bring together the various federal housing bodies, principally the Federal Housing Authority, Federal Housing Administration (FHA), and Federal Home Loan Bank Administration. It was also intended to… …
126coffee break — noun a snack taken during a break in the work day (Freq. 1) a ten minute coffee break the British have tea breaks • Syn: ↑tea break • Hypernyms: ↑bite, ↑collation, ↑snack …
127Offset agreement — Defense offset agreements are legal trade practices in the aerospace and military industries. These commercial practices do not need state regulations but, since the purchasers are mostly military departments of sovereign nations comparable to… …
128Arms industry — Workers assemble pistols at the John Inglis munitions plant, Canada, April 1944 The arms industry is a global industry and business which manufactures and sells weapons and military technology and equipment. It comprises government and commercial …
