The campaign lasted until May 1941 and involved dropping 50,000 tonnes of bombs.
It involved dropping a detector down a shaft within 40 metres of an exploding nuclear bomb, which would act as a source of neutrinos.
It involved dropping a four-ton metal boiler from a height of about 14 meters, or 49 feet, every 40 minutes for three days, reverberating through the ground to a nearby village.
Faced with opinion polls early last year that predicted a defeat, the government clawed its way back to a comfortable third term with a spending spree that involved dropping indexed taxes on petrol, giving more money to elderly Australians and making cash grants to first-home buyers.
In England in 2010, the team behind a particularly lame gangster film you won't have heard of, Dead Man Running, staged an ill-advised PR event that involved dropping £5,000 on shoppers from a balcony of a giant mall in Manchester.
We knew acquisition was the best course of action Evan Graj "Following Index's investment [in Deliveroo] and then Accel, the VC funds that would get involved dropped off a cliff," he says.
She wears the same outfit over and over, yet she is also known for her sporadic, voracious shopping sprees, one of which involved dropping $400,000 on 70 fur coats for herself and late husband John Lennon at Bergdorf Goodman.
It was very clear that everyone involved dropped the ball that night.
In years gone by, one of my Easter traditions involved dropping into fabric at some point over the weekend.
The ultimate goal for Eustace involved dropping through the earth's stratosphere without an outside shell for support thus launching him "higher than any man has gone without a rocket ship". .
