Word: compartmentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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On the second day of the hearing at Reading, Pa. a witness walked in with a handful of scored and pitted electrical fittings from the wreckage of the T.W.A. Constellation Star of Lisbon (TIME, July 22). By the time he had finished his testimony, the Civil Aeronautics Board had the...
Comrades of the Cucumber. The best and the worst of the famous Russian soul seems to come out on trains. The camaraderie is overwhelming; the crudity unbelievable. At every stop someone got off to fill my canteen with vodka, which was then redistributed to all hands. We collected an accordionist...
We shared our food and our languages and our songs. The Hero of the Soviet Union staggered down a succession of station platforms demanding cucumbers for his American comrade, and he eventually got them too, heaven only knows how. The railroad man sang the bass part to the entire Easter...
This flying flivver (which is actually flying) has no ailerons, elevators or rudder. A movable wing, which can be tipped in any direction by a single steering-wheel, takes over the work of all three. A motor behind the passenger compartment spins a pusher propeller that sticks out where the...
Aboard the train, the corporal and his three buddies "commandeered" a first-class compartment, and added a pregnant mother and her children ("someone suitableand deserving") to the group. One of the soldiers questioned the pregnant woman, whose husband worked in an anti-tank gun factory. "[Your husband] didn't...