Word: bottome
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...twelve divisions, of which six were Panzer (armored) or Panzer Grenadier (motorized with some armor), and six were top-notch infantry. Practically all their known mobile reserves on this front-eight or ten divisions-were believed to be lurking behind. The Berlin radio announced that units of the barrel-bottom Volkssturm or Home Army had been thrown in on the Western front; very few of these pathetic specimens, wearing distinctive arm bands, had been encountered on the fighting lines. Substandard Wehrmacht troops were captured in fixed positions during the first shock of the attack, but as the battle wore...
...will haul 35,000 pounds, which can be easily trundled in & out a letdown ramp in the rear. In a pinch, it can carry 172 soldiers. For postwar flying, Boeing expects airlines to use the top deck for passengers, who can sleep in roomy berths (see cut), the bottom either for a cocktail lounge (see cut) or cargo...
...first camera was an aluminum-cased affair which was taken to the bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...
Ewing's lenses have caught wrecked ships (he is now working for the Navy), "dust" storms, some strange fish. His method makes it possible to observe certain fish which cannot be caught alive with nets because they live only at ocean-bottom pressures. He also hopes that his camera will clear up an old baffler: why do fish from the presumably dark ocean bottom have well developed eyes, while those at slightly higher levels seem nearly blind? Ewing's guess: there are large amounts of luminescent organisms on the ocean floor...
Among the chief things oceanographers would like to know is the nature of 1) the mud and silt deposits, believed to range from 600 feet to seven and a half miles thick, which cover the ocean bottom, and 2) the earth's suboceanic ribs under these deposits. Ewing has already discovered sand ripples in ocean bottoms as deep as 600 feet, indicating previously unsuspected currents. To pursue a theory that cold water moves along the ocean bottom from the poles to the equator, Ewing plans to photograph the movement of dye released on the ocean floor...