Word: daylight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...steel center at Saarbrücken. Again it was an airdrome in Belgium, docks at Ostend, power stations in the Lille and Lens areas. U.S. Flying Fortresses made their seventh continental raid, proving the U.S. thesis that the high-speed, high-flying B-17s can be used in daylight raids where accuracy is greater than at night. Not a B-17 had been lost, with or without fighter escort...
...brick factories of World War I's war plants, with the narrow windows, bad ventilation and wood floors. Many of 1942's implements of war are made in block-long rooms with broad bands of windows and hard, clean floors; under light sometimes better than daylight, in cool, washed air. Lavatories are generally clean and shiny; there are locker rooms to change clothes...
...diazo" compounds which are closely related to dyes, but are only a faint yellow in color. Wherever light strikes, the diazo compounds are quickly and effectively bleached. Developing and fixing are combined in a single operation (exposure of the film to ammonia fumes), which may be done in subdued daylight. This exposure does not change the portions of the film that light has reached, but the ammonia turns the unexposed diazo compound red (or some other color, depending on the particular compound used). Result is a positive with the image on the inside instead of on the surface...
...alone. More aggressive than Tommies, or even the fast-working Canadians, a U.S. soldier does not hesitate to leap off a Hyde Park bench and catch a passing pretty around the waist. Average forgiveness time, they report, is three minutes for civilians, somewhat longer for girls in uniform. For daylight dates, soldiers like the prestige of uniforms. But they tend to choose unmilitary women for the evening: service girls must report back to barracks by 11 o'clock...
People dared to do business by daylight. Claire Chennault began to receive embarrassing presents, banners, trophies...