Word: drumming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...technique is that of Sardik Food Products Corp. of Manhattan, which has spent the last decade and $2,000,000 on much research and little production. Sardik's vegetables are first cooked, cooled, pulped (fruits are pulped raw), then sprayed in a 3/1,000-in. film on revolving drums, where heat drives off 96% of their water in ten to 20 seconds. Steam rising rapidly from the food prevents oxidation, as when apples turn brown. Vacuums (or inert gases such as carbon dioxide) are sometimes used to keep air away. Tomatoes come off the drum like an endless sheet...
...taken a long chance, had gathered an attacking force under cover just across the bay, presumably to be used against Corregidor. Somehow Corregidor knew. About the time the Jap was ready to move, the guns of Corregidor, and of Forts Hughes, Drum and Frank on the small islands near Corregidor, opened up. Taken by surprise, the landing party, its boats and its launches were destroyed...
That was a whopper. The U.S. Fleet is not just something somebody leaves in the pocket of another pair of pants. The U.S. was a troubled nation last week, but at least part of its trouble came because it felt like a man who has mislaid a bass drum in a taxicab. The 17 battleships, seven aircraft carriers, 37 cruisers, 172 destroyers, 113 submarines and some 1,100 smaller vessels that made up the Fleet on Dec. 7 made a sizeable total to place when you were trying to remember exactly where you had been the night before...
During November's Carolina maneuvers, he helped General Hugh Drum devise hard-hitting "tank-killer" units that stymied the Armored Divisions, with a handful of men and the same guns created a top-flight anti-aircraft defense. After maneuvers, Drum brought Jarman north, gave him the coordinated anti-aircraft command. Jarman's new command is still subordinate to the Coast Artillery on matters of procurement and personnel, but tactically it is subject only to First Army Commander Drum...
Carl Carmer's four volumes of non-fiction (Stars Fell on Alabama, Listen for a Lonesome Drum, etc.) have made him one of the most popular of U.S. regional specialists. This, his first novel, is just as regional, just as competent, and will probably be even more popular than his nonfiction. Scene: Carmer's favorite Genesee country of upper New York State, where he spent his boyhood. Time: the 1790s...