Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Infantry has 57,286 enlisted men, 3,568 officers in 36 skeleton regiments, two tank regiments. Blue-eyed, able Chief of Infantry George A. Lynch admits that the U. S. Infantry's organization is outmoded by foreign armies, tells his officers to think hard and fast. Meanwhile, the Infantry's equipment is excellent in type, deficient in quantity...
Department of Chemical Engineering Yale University New Haven, Conn. Although carbon dioxide does indeed leak through rubber 15 times as fast as air, the leakage is still slow. A CO2-inflated raft will carry a man four to six days. CO2 is used only for the first quick inflation: the raft thereafter is kept buoyant by a hand air-pump...
Army Girl (Republic). Neatly directed, fast-moving action picture in which the novel theme is conflict between an army inspector (Preston Foster) and an old-line officer (H. B. Warner), engendered by plans to mechanize the latter's cavalry post...
...Germans are the most impatient to get North Atlantic planes into regular service. Every week since 1934 Deutsche Lufthansa has been flying mail in fast Heinkel He. 705 from Berlin to Bathurst on the bulging coast of Africa, thence in Dornier DO-18s across the narrow South Atlantic to where South America bulges out to meet them at Natal, Brazil. Lufthansa one day will carry passengers on this route; until last year, when the Hindenburg burned up at Lakehurst, N. J., passengers could make the crossing any fortnight by Zeppelin...
...once, stitched tight. Blood vessels, nerves and smaller muscles adjust themselves naturally. Five to eight months after the operation, the pins are removed and the patient again has use of his leg. If the operation is performed on children around 12, the short leg usually grows in length as fast as the normal leg. In a few cases, when patients attained their full height, they discovered that the normal leg had outstripped the short one by an inch...