Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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General McClure ran his show from a spacious compound in Kunming, a stone's throw from the terminus of the Burma Road. He bellowed, spark-plugged and steamrollered the Chinese divisions within the C.C.C. from an amorphous lump into a cohesive weapon. He was assisted by such capable officers as Brigadier General George Olmstead, 44, a levelheaded lowan who ran G5; and Brigadier General Paul Caraway, 39, West Point-trained son of Arkansas' Senator Hattie Caraway and an outstanding planner, who served as Deputy Chief of Staff...
...Development of hydrogen peroxide as a high-powered fuel. Hydrogen peroxide, an unstable compound (H2O2), breaks down (into water-H20-and an atom of oxygen) with a large release of energy. The Germans used hydrogen peroxide in launching their V-1 and V-2 missiles, and were adapting it, with apparently promising results, to naval uses...
...German teacher at the University of Wisconsin. Books are supplied by the Red Cross and inter national Y.M.C.A. Besides formal instruction and informal sports, the camp's re-education program includes election of jurors to the prisoners' own disciplinary court, a once-a-week walk outside the compound, and showings of Nazi atrocity films...
...second, as incredibly delicate as the first, a gaseous uranium compound was pumped through the finest of sub-microscopic filters. The faintly more volatile U-235 passed through more easily. Result: a higher percentage of U-235 beyond the filters...
Even for Texas a woman like Clara Driscoll was something. She came from tiny St. Mary's, on the Gulf Coast, and when she was born (in 1881) many an aging Texan still remembered the Alamo. Her father, Cattleman Bob Driscoll, was just beginning to compound his $10 million empire out of equal parts of land and oil and trail-driven herds...