Word: burnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...engine for its fighter designs. Result of the Navy's unwillingness to abandon one design for another is that its newest fighter, the Vought-Sikorsky F4U (TIME, Dec. 9), is the fastest airplane built in the U. S.; its 2,000-h.p. air-cooled engine has power to burn...
...Cigaret paper is hard to make. It must be thinner than a human hair, strong enough to fold without tearing, tasteless. It must not stick to the lips nor burn faster or slower than tobacco. Before the war the U. S. bought its yearly supply (some $4,000,000 worth) from France, which made the paper from old linen gathered by the ragpickers of Poland, Russia and the Balkans...
...daily traffic jam that tied up the public square. A 300% increase in mail had the post office stumped. Five crews of linemen scrambled and shinnied to make telephone connections. Rushing to finish a much-needed sewage system, WPAsters built street-corner privies which indignant citizens threatened to burn. Sidewalk hawkers with pushcarts turned Charlestown into a Lower East Side. Jam-packed was the town's lone grog shop.-Every night was Saturday night and Saturday night was chaos...
...Diesel, air is sucked into the cylinder, then highly compressed by the piston motion so that its temperature rises to around 1,000° F. Atomized fuel is then shot into the cylinder where it is ignited by the heat. The high temperature enables the Diesel to burn cheap fuel. Powdered coal and cheap oil were the first fuels that Rudolf Diesel puttered with...
Soon after Hitler came to power, Joseph Paul Goebbels, Ph.D., asked best-selling Oskar Maria Graf to become his official Nazi novelist. Replied Graf: "What have I done to deserve this disgrace? Burn my books! I would consider it an undying mark of shame if my books were not burned by you." Burned they were, and homeless Novelist Graf has wandered ever since-Austria, Czechoslovakia, Russia, the U. S. In The Life of My Mother, "a biographical novel," Outcast Oskar Maria Graf seeks a way back to his spiritual verities...