Word: compartmentation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grebe's machine is a U-shaped room, 7 by 12 feet, which can be fitted some where into a house - or, under its own roof, added on. Grebe suggests that a large house may have several units (guests might want to do their own laundry or pick up...
Carrier's Escape. The Bunker Hill's fight for survival lasted through many agonizing hours. A huge pillar of smoke billowed from the after half of the ship, where blazing gasoline and oil sloshed around. Crewmen manned hoses in the face of flames which scorched them to the...
At week's end the delegates set out in their respective ways on the road to Simla: Congress President Azad by air; League President Jinnah in a first-class, air-conditioned, coach; Mohandas K. Ghandi in a third-class railway compartment.
Allied ordnance experts sped to Bromskirchen, probed V-2's innards, gave a superficial description which confirmed the facts already gleaned from exploded V-2s: it is 45 feet long (minus its explosive head), six to seven feet in diameter at the middle, tapered at head and tail; it...
"I read in TIME (Mar. 12) that the tank drivers at Chrysler threatened to strike because the proving grounds were dusty. . . . This brings to mind several problems confronting your union. . . . Have any representations been made to the management concerning the Tetter mines which are scattered all over Siegfried Proving Grounds...