Word: apparatuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...once, rain and fog were welcome. When the word came to move, the weather hid the little party of 20 and their six truckloads of equipment-radio apparatus, tents, personal effects. Twenty-seven hours later the A.A.C.S. barge scraped to a landing at Munda. It was the first Air Forces unit to reach the island...
...summary of work done, told how air cargoes of vital raw materials arrived only a few hours before the last reserves were scraped from the bottom of U.S. stockpiles. Without planeloads of mica, quartz crystals, tantalate, columbite, industrial diamonds and rare drugs, the production lines of magnetos, electrical apparatus, stainless steel and medicines would have stopped dead...
Through the dark Arctic night slipped a sleek, grey sea wolf, searching for the sheep of the sea. It was the 26,000-ton German battleship Scharnhorst, sniffing delicately with her intricate detector apparatus, pricking up her mechanical ears, hunting hungrily for a fat Allied convoy on the long haul to Murmansk with materiel for the Red Army...
Major Ascroft's chief reason for operating at a base hospital: there the surgeon can use 1) the X-ray (which is not always available in forward zones); 2) a suction apparatus to remove injured brain tissues and debris and an electric cautery to stop bleeding. Neither device is obtainable near a swiftly moving front...
...rain maker studied and taught at Yale and other U.S. and German universities, last year got an award from the Royal Meteorological Society of London for his studies of fogs on airdromes. Last week Capetown's City Council was pondering putting up $1,000,000 for the rainmaking apparatus...