Word: compartmentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joseph Paul-Boncour, onetime French Foreign Minister and perennial delegate to the League of Nations, had to leave his compartment on the Paris-Hague express when a broken pipe suddenly drenched him with steam. Quipped a colleague: "You have just rendered impromptu homage to Finland by taking a Finnish steam...
High over droughty Kansas, one afternoon last week, a U. S. Army bomber flew into a dust storm. Lieut. Harold Neely eased his ship out of the sudden dusk and up to 11,000 feet, where the air was clear. Noting that the gasoline gauge was low, he turned on...