Word: bags
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beaches of Sicily, the innards of much of its motor equipment were protected from the sea with a thick, gummy substance that was the result of a near-miracle of production back home. Last week Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) proudly let the miracle out of the bag...
...Bean bag-meal pennant aboard ship...
...been the goal of the anti-submarine campaign, but early this year the men in charge of the campaign did not expect to attain such a rate of destruction before 1944. If, as is generally supposed, the Germans have been building around 25 U-boats a month, the Allied bag may well have averaged one U-boat a day. Unofficial reports that the Germans lost 30 submarines were probably close to the mark...
...submarines in the Pacific this week reported their biggest haul of the war: 12 Jap ships sunk, 1 probably sunk, 3 damaged. With this bag, the submarines' total came to 181 Jap ships sent to the bottom, or one-half of all Jap ships sunk since Pearl Harbor. Announced U.S. sub losses...
...Navy's device, like that of Caltech's Physicist Alexander Goetz (TIME, June 7), uses chemicals to remove salts from the water. Equipment consists of a packet of chemicals the size of a deck of cards and three plastic bags resembling hot-water bottles. Sea water is mixed with one of the chemicals in the first bag, which converts the salts in the water into other compounds. These are then precipitated by another chemical and filtered out in the second and third bags. The final product: clear, fresh, slightly sulfuric water...