Word: chained
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...artillery. Air Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham's R.A.F. strength was apparently shocked by the first blast, and consequently the Japanese at first achieved local air control in north Malaya. But from London it was announced that immediate reinforcements would be sent by way of a long-prepared chain of airports from the Middle East and India...
...industrial establishments. From Alaska the U.S. Navy might punch air raids into Japan's northern advance base at Paramoshiri Island, south of the Kamchatka peninsula. From Guam and Wake, regained, U.S. Army and Navy Air Forces could bomb the Japanese mandated islands and begin to forge a chain that would be stout and confining...
Natural rubber can be thought of as a long hydrocarbon chain, composed essentially of a cramped-up chain of molecules of methyl butadiene or isoprene. When the rubber is stretched this chain unfolds; when the rubber contracts, it doubles up again. So the problem of synthesizing rubbers is 1) to find basic chain-units similar to methyl butadiene, 2) to build these up into larger, stringy, stretchy molecules. Best way of classifying synthetic rubbers is by their basic materials...
...young, unknown poets and writers and giving them a chance to see their works in print. For some four years his annual anthology, "New Directions in Prose and Poetry," has contained some of the more interesting, if startling, contributions to modern literature. No ordinary publisher would accept them, for chain poems and their ilk are not designed as money makers. Laughlin can afford, if necessary, to take a loss...
Through this dusty plot shuffles blue-eyed Gene Tierney, 21, cast as a sort of desert branch manager of a Bedouin A. & P. Co. chain. Supposedly a half-caste daughter of an Arab trader, she manages to remain as dead-pan as all good Arabs are supposed to be. Of course she turns out to be Miss Graham Fletcher, a British operative...