Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Money to Burn. In the Bitter Root Mountains, Idaho, Bob Hart went on a mountain goat hunt, needed a fire to keep from freezing, could find no kindling, had to use $100 worth of uncashed checks...
First he decided that a useful death ray would have to 1) burn a half-inch hole in a four-inch plank in five seconds; 2) burn a six-inch live tree two miles away in three minutes; 3) kill small animals at 5,000 feet in three seconds. Reason: anything milder would not be valuable militarily...
...Australian horse opera that has documentary force. In 1942, when Australia looked every day for a Jap invasion, the Australians decided to scorch their earth. The Northern Territory, some 520,000 square miles of land containing only 5,000 people and a million head of cattle, began to burn its houses, shoot its bullocks and head south...
James Biggar, manager of caretaking, also labled Yard security top secret, but was clearly not inclined to fiddle while College grass plots burn. His men are primed for a repetition of the November 14 Yale commando raid on Princeton, which included burning a large "Y" on the lawn of the Nassau...
...overheated Faroe kitchens, hotheaded partisans recently have let the whale-oil lamps burn low while they argued the merits of proud independence on the one hand or Danish protection on the other. Some have even suggested alliance with the U.S. or Britain. But last September, when the Danes offered them a flat choice between full freedom or continued rule, the Faroese, unable to decide, turned down both alternatives. Last week they elected a new Lagting (local parliament) with instructions to work out some compromise which would adapt Danish rule to local conditions in the Faroes...