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Word: ejectors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Conscientious Ejector. In Las Cruces, N. Mex., Draft Violator Joseph Graigmyle explained why he had run away from his cow-milking job at La Tuna Federal Correctional Institution: "I found out the milk was going to Fort Bliss, and I don't believe in helping the Army...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Jun. 13, 1949 | 6/13/1949 | See Source »

...flew off to sprinkle a fat cumulus cloud over the Andean foothills. Rain fell, but it was in an area where it often rains at this time of year. Next day, Pedro was in the air again, with dry ice, found a cloud over the desert. The dry-ice ejector got stuck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERU: Rainmaker | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

Along Britain's beaches one war was still on. Crouching behind armor-plate, special troops cautiously worked electrical detectors, ejector pumps, high-pressure hoses and bulldozers through the sands, hunting for buried mines. Many of these minefields had been planted by the British in hot haste, when invasion was still a day-to-day threat. Since then some location charts have been lost, some of the officers in charge have died on other missions, mines themselves have moved or been buried deep in shifting sand beds. Ninety-six officers and men have died and 26 have been wounded digging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFTERMATH IN EUROPE: War on the Beaches | 6/11/1945 | See Source »

...Refrigerators will contain a violet-ray compartment for tenderizing meats and an ice-cube ejector worked by turning a crank...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Homes of the Future | 4/5/1943 | See Source »

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