Word: cones
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dour, diffident Henry Morgenthau Jr. sat in the House Ways & Means Committee room one morning last week munching raisins. Beside him also munching raisins sat his chief tax expert, small, dun-colored Randolph Paul. Now & then they both drank water from a cone of paper cups piled beside a big water jug, while a battery of grey young Treasury experts, without benefit of raisins and water, periodically scrabbled for documents in accordion-sized brief cases. Morgenthau & Co. needed their vitamins: they had been up most of the night before, putting the finishing touches on the Treasury's recommendations...
...mortar fire, he picked a careful way behind stone walls up the limestone and pumice heights of the Sorrentine peninsula. From the ridge the patches of chestnut forest tumbled into the brown Campania plain. The General looked in the direction of the ashen ruins of Pompeii, the lava-scarred cone of Vesuvius. Beyond the volcano rose a huge shroud of smoke over the port of Naples. In that city of 900,000, rising in tourist times like a white amphitheater from the blue sea, the Germans were dynamiting and burning. It was clear proof that the Wehrmacht had lost...
...ward to help in the job. Army engineers and Navy Seabees prepared to restore the 4,000-ft. Munda airstrip, which would bring the U.S. just within fighter-plane range of Rabaul. Eyes turned to Vila, Munda's supplementary airstrip 17 miles away, huddled against the great cone of Kolombangara. That the Japs were determined to cling to Vila was evident when they once more took the impossible chance and sent down four ships with reinforcements. Intercepting the convoy at mid night in the Vella Gulf, the U.S. Navy, already operating north of Kolombangara, sank a cruiser, two destroyers...
...device, an invention of Professor Charles M. Heck, head of the physics department at North Carolina's State College, in effect plucks down the sky's low temperature and focuses it on the thermometer. How it works: the polished aluminum surface of a small cone surrounding the thermometer radiates its heat to the sky but is protected from the ground heat by the nest of twelve larger cones with air insulation between them. The innermost cone thus cools to sky temperature, and the thermometer with it. Temperatures as low as -20° F. have been recorded even...
Simultaneously with Mather's lecture it was reported that a new volcano in Mexico had erupted, building up a cone 1000 feet high and driving inhabitants from a nearby town. The University is sending an expedition today to study the developments of the new volcano...