Word: blockings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Here it was revealed, the report stated, that the cylinder heads had been seriously scarred when Snell's men pried them off, and that the repair shop had unsuccessfully attempted to conceal the effects of this damage by placing excess gasket-maker between the heads and the engine block...
...almost certain that the Japanese would drive on northward, do their most to block these lifelines. With the same stroke, they would further brace themselves for a sea-and-air drive across the Bay of Bengal at India. The Allies, with all Burma gone, would find it harder than ever to defend uncertain India, harder still to place bombers, tanks and artillery in China to answer the flames of Toungoo...
Pound or Pour? Sample military gadget is a machine-gun trunnion block, on which the gun swivels. When it is forged, i.e.., pounded, into rough shape out of a hot chunk of steel, it weighs 20 lb. In machining the block into shape, 14 lb. of steel is drilled, planed and ground away before the crude lump becomes a finished 6-lb. trunnion block...
...fetching $595, against $495 a year ago; 1941 models are worth their original prices. In Detroit any good 1940 model sells for only $100 less than it cost new; 1941 jobs show no depreciation. In Baltimore an auctioneer last week put an almost new 1941 model on the block, without a word caressed its big, wonderfully thick tires. It brought $1,600-$100 over the new-car price. Older models formerly selling for 50-$100 are now stripped of their tires (and sometimes upholstery), sold as junk...
...rousing antics of the trio.... I also liked "There'll Be Some Changes Made," sung as a blues.... Someone asked me how to get to the Savoy Cafe to hear the Frankie Newton band. Take an Egleston car from Park Street, get off at West Newton Street, walk a block north to Columbus Avenue and make for the green-lighted sign across the street. I envy you a most satisfying evening...