Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Through San Francisco's summer fog flickered a fire, kindled under an office chair. The fire was set in an effort to burn the britches off the U.S. Army's most important Western administrator, tight-lipped Lieut. General John Lesesne DeWitt...
...Ickes and most oilmen "from Missouri," were taking no chances. The President warned the Eastern seaboard that householders had better prepare for fuel-oil rationing. Ickes went beyond words to action, halted all deliveries of heating oil until Sept. 15 to build up stocks, warned 400,000 homeowners who burn oil in converted coal furnaces that they may not be allowed any oil at all and had better convert back to coal right away. So far, he said, fewer than 30,000 have done...
...people of the nation would never have belittled or cheapened your unselfish devotion to your country in such a fashion. They have thrilled at the things you have done and are doing. They have experienced the surge of spiritual fire that must burn deep in the heart of every man who serves his country as you have served...
...fluid is applied to wood by spraying or painting and is not merely a surface protection, for it seeps so completely into the wood that it makes it almost as hard to burn as steel. It will be very important in protecting ships, hangars, factories, and other dwellings from fire...
...waste in such motor tests is prodigious. A 2,200 h.p. engine burns up some 2,000 gallons during a twelve-hour test. And plane engines cannot burn anything but precious 100 octane...