Word: dusters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bigger & Better. Although Texas had not yet called for a polio team, the largest state was not to be denied the largest whoop & holler. The sale of DDT was up 600%; old cotton-duster planes were spraying creek beds (although medical authorities question the effectiveness of such measures) ; a health official said that 20,000 outhouses were destined for a purge. A mother wrote health officials wanting to know if it "was safe to mail a letter out of San Antonio." High-school graduation ceremonies were being held by radio, to avoid assemblies. The publicity would not harm a forthcoming...
...blazing hot day in July 1861, a little bespectacled man with a Vandyke beard, a big nose, and wearing a white linen duster and a straw hat, hurried across the Long Bridge at Washington, D.C. on to the territory of a newly proclaimed nation, the Confederate States of America. He joined the crush of junketing Congressmen, society ladies in carriages and pleasure seekers who had jaunted out to see the Union Army trounce General Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard's Confederates at Bull Run. The little man in the linen duster was Mathew Brady, a popular portrait photographer of Washington...
...wild rout that followed the battle, Brady reached Washington with his duster begrimed and his straw hat limp with sweat. But in his negative box were the first of his series of great war photographs. As soon as the plates were developed, he exhibited them in his Washington gallery. Their success was instantaneous. Wrote Humphrey's Journal: "The public is indebted to Brady of Broadway for his excellent views of grim-visaged war. . . . His are the only records of the fight at Bull Run. . . . Brady has shown more pluck than many of the officers and soldiers who were...
...merchant navy's "Red Duster," Cana-dianized after Confederation by superimposing the Dominion coat of arms on the fly (outer end of the flag), and Canada's unofficial flag...
Then darkness closed in. The pilots of General Quesada's "Hell Hawks" and "Panzer Duster" groups had counted 126 enemy tanks, armored vehicles and trucks destroyed, 34 more damaged. The U.S. loss had been one plane. The pilots itched for more such good hunting. But next day the fog was so bad they could not even take...