Word: asphalted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...island which had been only a Pan American Clipper stop before the war, five great airfields were clawed out of the hills and jungles. In & out of them flew mail, passengers, plasma, wounded. From the great asphalt acres roared the Super-forts of the 21st Bomber Command. Where Standard Oil had once maintained a few oil tanks, there were now enough facilities to hold four days' output of all the oil wells in Oklahoma...
...Army Chemical Warfare Service: a new fire bomb, the M-74, said to be even more effective than the jellied-gasoline M69 (TIME, April 2). A concoction of phosphorus, magnesium, asphalt, gasoline and other chemicals, the 10-lb. bomb throws gobs of clinging, white-hot lava which are hotter and harder to put out than gasoline...
...first marathon (490 B.C.) killed the winner, Pheidippides.* But skinny, bandy-legged Johnny Kelley scarcely worked up a sweat last week in the Boston Athletic Association's 49th annual marathon. Trotting briskly down asphalt Exeter Street, he waved a victor's clenched fist to the crowd, kissed his father and wheezed: "Pa, I made it." An oversize laurel wreath kept slipping over his ears...
...chattering and shouting "Ting hao!" ("Good!") to everyone. The blockade had been broken; they had done it. Some of them were sitting happily on the last Jap machine-gun emplacements directly in the fork of the road, where the dirt track of the Shweli Valley spilled on the black asphalt surface of the main Burma highway itself. A little distance off, Chinese soldiers stood gaping with peasant eyes at the monstrous steel hides of the American tanks...
...smooth three-lane highway that cut a five-hour haul to 15 minutes. Restricting even generals' cars from the road unless they carried coral, the engineers kept up a round-the-clock shuttle, delivering a truckload of coral every 40 seconds. Then they surfaced the coral with asphalt mixed in a plant built mainly from odds & ends of a shell-shattered Jap sugar mill...