Word: drains
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regiment, the First Motorized Hussars, were informed that Dutch Intelligence expected a possible German invasion on May 9 or 10. We were told to pass out live ammunition to the troops and we were given the exact areas in which paratrooper landings could be expected. Large sections of storm-drain pipe were placed on the runways of the airfields, and trucks were parked at intervals on the middle of the freeways to prevent possible aircraft landings...
...drain in her bathroom sink was clogged, and Mrs. Frances Moore of Oak Lawn, Ill., decided to clean it out with Drāno. But before she could unscrew the cap, the can exploded at the seam and her face was splattered with the product, which is more than half lye. In less than two minutes, she was blinded for life. That was nearly eight years ago. Last week, after listening to her story, a Cook County Circuit Court jury decided that the Drackett Products Co., manufacturers of Drāno, should...
...award was largely due to the jury's finding of "willful and wanton" misconduct by Drackett. One of the most chemically active products made for the home, Drāno produces hydrogen gas and generates heat of 212° to melt or otherwise destroy materials clogging a drain; all it takes to start it sizzling is contact with water. Mrs. Moore's lawyer contended that moisture had somehow got into the can, and that the company was aware that this could happen. Its quality-control department, he said, had noted "that the material itself was lumpy, indicating...
...some 100 fighter aircraft-mostly supersonic F-4 Phantoms); they will remain on instant alert for return to West Germany within two weeks in the event of a Soviet attack. Britain negotiated a 10% reduction of its 55,000-man Army of the Rhine, long a drain on Whitehall's sterling reserves. At the same time, the Bundesbank agreed to refrain from converting U.S. dollars into gold, and promised to honor its purchase of $500 million worth of 41% Treasury bonds - in effect a capital import for Washington -through...
...asking for the withdrawal of forces as a check on the increasingly worrisome U.S. gold drain, Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler said that this was a necessary precaution against the possible economic erosion of the Western Alliance. For an America caught up in a war in Asia, and a vigorous Europe with no foreign entanglements, the first major withdrawal of "cold war" troops from the Continent also signaled a belated adjustment to Realpolitik...