Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Midwest, summer's first good hot spell perked up the backward corn crop and the farmers' hopes. In the Pacific Northwest, hot winds pushed giant fires through unnaturally dry forests (see cut), near the 250,000-acre wasteland left by Oregon's "Tillamook burn...
...phosphorus shells from land-based flak batteries and a few tracers from small warships in the harbor but none came close. . . . They could not save this northern Honshu shipping center [Aomorí] even though they knew 24 hours in advance [see above] that we were going to burn it to the ground...
...saved by liberal use of blood plasma and careful artificial regulation of blood composition and pressure to keep him going until his skin envelope could function again. The only burn dressing was gauze smeared with vaseline. The man was back on duty three months after the accident...
This continued discussion on the subject of "is we is, is we ain't" going to fight the Russians is beginning to burn. It can only bring about distrust between ourselves and them and lead eventually to a policy of maintaining a wartime Army and Navy even after Japan is crushed...
...Here They Come." By noon, the fire on the Ti seemed to be dying down. At 12:53 more bogeys were reported on the starboard side. "Here they come," some body yelled. As I was watching the burn ing Ticonderoga, at 12:55, the antiaircraft guns on a dozen ships opened up at once. Five Japs fell flaming into the sea, three of them victims of the Ti's own guns, but the sixth, though he was burning in three places, plowed straight into the Ti's smoke pall...