Word: crude
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week General MacArthur sprang his surprise. U.S. troops, he announced, were fighting in the vicinity of Buna. Evidently the dirty, sweating U.S. Army engineers had hacked a crude road through the world's wettest, highest jungle, enabling combat troops to cross the mountains on the Australians' flank and knock at the Japs' back door. More troops came in planes which landed on a natural strip discovered in the jungle. Said General MacArthur: "The Allied forces now control all of Papua except the beachhead in the Buna-Gona area...
...inch, $60,000,000 tube will connect with an almost-finished pipeline from Longview, Tex. to Norris City. By next June it will carry 300,000 bbl. of crude oil a day, do the work of 8,000 tank cars. The oil, said Harold Ickes, will go to: 1) the armed forces and "undoubtedly will hasten a second front"; 2) war production; 3) "basic" (not general) civilian transportation and health needs. Steel for the new line will be taken away from some other war projects, as recommended by the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
...ideas on these matters 22 years ago were much too vague and crude, and at the same time much too ambitious, with the result that when they came to be tested by hard experience they proved wanting and their failure helped contribute to the present conflict...
...Life is Crude. There is nothing much to do except to work hard all day, then go to bed. Up at five o'clock, the troops eat a breakfast which may consist of French toast, Karo syrup, sausages and coffee. The world's loveliest sunrise is golden and purple and leaden. As soon as light appears ("back over there where home is") a faint flush of warmth pushes back the cool of night. By eight o'clock it is hot and sticky. Standard dress is a pair of khaki shorts, nothing more. The soldiers, sailors and marines...
...Wright Cyclone and British Bristol Hercules, is used in many of the Zeros. It is a 14-cylinder, double-banked, radial air-cooled engine, rated 1,050 h.p. when run on 95 to 100 octane fuel. Workmanship is spotty; some parts are finely finished, others are very crude. The weakest point is the cooling system; cooling area per cylinder is under 1,000 sq. in. compared to 2,800 in the genuine Wright Cyclone. The propeller is a duplicate of the U.S.-made Hamilton Standard. The air frame is very similar to the German Heinkel HE 113. Most...