Word: compounded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bombings: "If the enemy thinks he can wear us down, he errs. And I assure you the hour will come when I will strike back with compound interest. They will learn over there that German inventive genius has not been idle and they will get an answer which will knock them deaf and blind...
...company on Nov. 18. One reason for the award: Lights, Inc. delivers on time. Besides lighting equipment (75% of its total) the company makes "stuffing tubes" (which hold cables on ships), bomb release pulleys, etc., and is planning to subcontract the manufacture of Butex, a synthetic rubber compound...
...worked out a system for bending tank armor on the presses that used to stamp out auto bodies, promptly offered it to Chrysler and Ford. G.M. had to make its own machines to bore turrets, so it made some for Ford and Chrysler too. Ford developed a new, better compound for molding ignition parts, which Pratt & Whitney now uses. "Liquid forging," a Ford casting method, releases forging equipment for other work, saves large amounts of metal...
...Many bacteria need another B factor, pantothenic acid, to thrive. So Bacteriologist Henry McIlwain of Sheffield, England, reasoned that bacteria might likewise mistake a compound called pantoyltaurine for its chemical relative, pantothenic acid. His hunch was right, and his discovery may well lead to development of a second group of bacteria-hoaxing chemicals comparable to the sulfa-group...
...produce cotton, the one perfect wartime crop that produces food, fiber and shot. Compound lard, high explosives, stock feed, clothing, plastics, isinglass for planes and thousands of other products are produced from cotton. Very few articles can be made from soybeans that cannot also be made from cotton seed. We can grow more pounds of cotton seed per acre than we can soybeans, and we can harvest the cotton seed...