Word: dust
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...California desert 175 miles east of Los Angeles row upon row of darkly tanned U.S. tank soldiers sprawled and squatted, Indian style, in the dry dust. A battery of klieg lights lit up the overcast, night. One soldier climbed a telephone pole and perched there all evening...
...Corning Corp., is utterly unlike ordinary glass. It not only floats but is black in color, opaque, weighs about one-fifteenth as much as ordinary glass and can easily be sawed, drilled or shaped without chipping or shattering. To make it, glass is finely crushed and heated with carbon dust in a furnace. The molten mass rises and swells like dough as gas from the carbon froths up the melting glass into a foam which later cools and hardens while still keeping its foam structure. Waterproof, ratproof, rotproof, heat-resistant-Foamglas is finding its first big industrial...
This week the maneuvers will develop into a bigtime mock fight when planes and many tanks join the fray. When the dust has cleared, the generals will confer. The hot, dirty, tired, hungry men along the Cumberland hope the generals will decide they are ready...
...Exonians had the second period all to themselves, however, making two tallies to leave the Freshmen in the dust 12 to 7. Bill Peck, driving around Harvard's flank, made the first. Ernie Ransome piled through the Crimson center to score the second and turn the score in favor of Exeter. Both extra points failed...
...President rode between two giant assembly lines, where a hundred General Lees-the new all-welded medium tank-were abuilding. He waved to 5,000 astounded workmen, who lined up in a solid wall to greet him. On the testing ground, he watched 50 tanks roar through mud and dust. One tank drove straight at him, slogged through a muddy testing hole, ground to a stop ten feet away. The young Polish driver stuck his dirty face from the turret and grinned. "A good drive!" shouted the President...