Word: dam
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...general public . . ." said General Johnson, "simply does not seem to give a tinker's dam...
...TIME Correspondent Melville Jacoby to address a message for them all to their Commander in Chief: "Dear Mr. Roosevelt: Our P-40 is full of holes. Please send us a new one." In Washington Congress proposed a Congressional Medal of Honor for Douglas MacArthur, considered naming a projected TVA dam and a Washington boulevard (now Conduit Road) in his honor...
...Lozovaya Timoshenko's troops were only 62 miles from Dnepropetrovsk and the site of the once great, now ruined Dnieper Dam. The Ukrainian Socialist Soviet Republic last week announced that before the dam was dynamited to render it useless to the Germans (TIME, Sept. 1), its 740,000-h.p. turbines and other power machinery had been dismantled and moved eastward to safety...
Heat v. Cold. Blood clots may lodge in the lungs, cause instant death. They may also form in arms or legs, choke off circulation. If they lodge in an artery, they prevent the flow of fresh, oxygen-rich blood from the heart to the limb; if they dam up a vein, they prevent the return of used blood, heavy with body poisons, to the heart. Without proper circulation of the blood to keep them alive, body tissues die, become gangrenous...
Among the several models which are included with the pictures and diagrams is one of the entire Pick wick Landing Dam and one of the great cranes which was used to install turbine at Hiwassee...