Word: blaze
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Secretary Sir Archibald Sinclair disclosed that Britain has taken steps to offset the world-round impact of the U.S. Air Forces' Transport Commands-an operation which is solely for war, but is bound to blaze the way for U.S. commercial operations after the war. The R.A.F. has formed its own Transport Command to work with British Overseas Airways Corp., whose transport operations have been sadly crimped. The R.A.F.'s famed Ferry Command, which has been whisking bombers across the North Atlantic for almost two years and has lately spread to the South Atlantic, will be subordinated...
British flower farmers have dug up their precious flower bulbs and have planted root crops-swedes, turnips, mangel-wurzels, oats and onions. But some fields still blaze with flowers, and black marketers from the city offer high prices. Snorted one Cornish farmer: "Maybe there were a few who took the chance of making an easy pound when it was offered to them, but the rest of us sold nothing to them 'foreigners...
...incident" atop the House squash courts. At a given signal, little men climbed nimbly up hastily erected ladders and began dousing the roof, each other, and, theoretically, the conflagration with streams of water from their fire hoses. With Chief Air Raid Warden Aldrich Durant looking on, the valiant blaze-battlers finished their task, and like the Arab of old, silently stole away...
...Government's plan will not only serve to please restless conchies. It is good economics as well: the old method of trekking across mountainous terrain to quench a blaze costs the Forest Service an average of $3,500 per fire; parachutists have been doing the job faster at $247 per fire...
...stopped, turned around again. Smoke plumed from one of her engine nacelles. But fire there meant less danger than it had meant in older ships. In each fireproof engine housing were 16 thermostatic fire warnings and an extinguishing system to put carbon dioxide just where it was needed. The blaze, from a backfire, died...