Word: concealment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mobile smoke-generator which vomits white clouds large enough to conceal whole cities has been developed by General Electric. The process is still secret. > Paper parachutes for loads up to 50 lb. are replacing expensive chutes of scarce silk and nylon. The Civil Air Patrol drops food, serum and other emergency supplies with tough, crepe-paper chutes made by Dennison Manufacturing Co. > Recent entrant in the unending race between projectiles and armor is a bullet to shoot holes in so-called bulletproof gas tanks. These tanks have rubber linings which close up holes made by ordinary bullets. The new projectile...
...going on to his efforts to outsmart an Axis spy ring in Washington. The devious chase leads him to boudoirs, Niagara Falls, a burlesque queen's bed, a beauty salon and finally to the spies' council of war in the salon showroom, where Hope tries to conceal himself by posing as a clothes dummy on a bicycle. His mugging in this perilous situation, marked by vain efforts to regain a dropped slipper and at the same time keep the treacherous bicycle bell quiet, makes a notable addition to the library of Hope classics in hilarity...
...none of the advances in strategy or collaboration which might have made last night's news the "greatest story of the year." Its publicity can only be a boomerang in the face of Washington and the press. To over-emphasize the good news is as poor policy as to conceal the bad; to herald in superlatives the intangible accomplishments of the current meeting can only minimize when it comes the effect of a realized collaboration among the United Nations...
...noted Chinese who did not have to conceal his bitterness was Philosopher-Author Lin Yutang. Said he: "Let me ask the American people a question: Why should not General Hsiung leave? Of what use can his presence in Washington be to the Allied cause-since the leaders of the United Nations appear to be far from ready to share with China a unified strategy against Japan? The enormous reservoir of good will between China and America is being severely drawn upon...
Besides doing actual camouflage work on the models, the students study the science of blending colors to match season-changing landscape. They learn how to conceal the revealing crooks of rivers and ponds by anchoring floats on them or by covering the surface of the water with sawdust...