Word: corpses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other deviations from wartime conditions: the menus for three meals a day for the duration of the maneuvers were printed by the Quartermaster Corps in a 41-page booklet. These included such items as oranges, milk, fresh eggs, cucumber salad, sliced peaches, corn on the cob, Rice Krispies, fish, ice...
A Briton frequently seen by Queen Victoria, King Edward and King George is the new Governor General put forward by Mr. Lyons last week, soldierly Sir Alexander Hore-Ruthven, brother of the ninth Baron Ruthven whose Scottish title dates from 1487. Sir Alexander was born in George Windsor's...
North over hard, dry hummocks of wasteland to Point Barrow. Alaska one night last week trotted a lone Eskimo. In three hours Clair Oakpeha covered 15 miles. Finally he stopped, exhausted, at the door of the U. S. Signal Corps station. Out stepped Sergeant Stanley Morgan.
Promptly at midnight the Pontchartrain's lights went out and the boat vanished in the night. On the hilltop slick-haired, thin-lipped Captain Lawrence L. Clayton of the U. S. Army Signal Corps and a sergeant bent over an apparatus of which the handful of witnesses, mostly newsmen...
Thermocouples are activated by infra-red radiation as well as by starlight. It would be possible to put the thermocouple at the focus of a movable parabolic reflector, and to assume, when a peak of electrical activity was noted, that the reflector was trained on some strong source of radiation...