Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From a building in the disciplinary area of Indiana's Ft. Benjamin Harrison last week rushed an irate mob of G.I. prisoners. They snatched up the whitewashed boulders lining the paths and flower beds and rushed the guards. Suddenly, th compound became a battlefield...
Party's End. British tanks and infantry rounded up smaller fry, seizing arrogant Wehrmacht officers' sidearms, ending the gay parties that had been held in the Admiral's schoolhouse compound. Soldiers from Norway and Denmark strode about Flensburg, boasting: "We were never beaten." A British sergeant knocked one of them down, and said: "Well, you've been beaten now." Disarmed marines were marched through the streets, still singing We Sail against England...
...amphibious jeep or truck is that it should keep afloat; the next most important, that its ignition system should keep dry. Fortnight ago U.S. Industrial Chemicals, Inc. was permitted to tell how the second requirement has been met in World War II. The electrical parts are painted with a compound known as PiB (protects, insulates batteries), which is brushed or sprayed over the spark plugs, battery terminals and exposed electrical parts. There it dries slowly to produce a highly insulating but flexible film, making the circuits impermeable by water...
...mild, white-haired, C.I.O. President Philip Murray did not stress this side of the case. He argued that Labor deserved a 20% rise-10% to cover increased living costs and 10% more because of increased productivity. This argument was much more questionable. A rise to cover living costs would compound inflation. And "increased productivity," if it exists, can probably be chiefly credited to the greater efficiency of operating at capacity because of war demands...
...last we came to a high wooden wall and went through the gates'. Before us stretched the great prison compound of Dachau. This must be at least one square mile in extent. In & out of this vast stretch of open compound studded with low barracks were swarming the liberated men of Dachau. I cannot pre tend to estimate the number with any exactness. But there were many thousand...