Word: flash
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When he left his applauding auditors of the University Club and moved over to his fixed position on the tenth floor of the nearby Biltmore, the invasion was on. At 10:30 the press was called in. For an hour, as photographers' flash bulbs flared, he answered questions, chain-smoking, gesturing and wriggling in familiar campaign fashion. The most important news for California: 1) that he was going to have breakfast with Governor Warren at the executive mansion in Sacramento; 2) that he was studying the California Presidential primary...
...Axis agents laid a trap for her on a South Atlantic crossing with 10,000 U.S. troops aboard. Submarines were waiting, spies in São Paulo, Brazil were prepared to flash word of her exact course when their secret radio station was discovered just in time. The Italian Government was so sure that the trap would work that Rome announced her sinking on the appointed...
...protection against flash burns, often suffered by soldiers & sailors caught by the heat waves caused by explosions, was announced this week by the Navy Medical Research Institute at Bethesda, Md. The Institute researchers tried 70 creams before they developed one that filled the bill. The new cream is grey (which helps camouflage), lasts six to eight hours, will not rub off except with soap, does not interfere with finger action, protects against a heat flash of over 1,800° F. The formula is secret...
Sailors from Pearl Harbor and soldiers from Africa have spent long weeks in hospitals suffering from flash burns covering big areas of skin. A sailor stripped to the waist burns much worse than one wearing a skivvy shirt. So the Navy now tries to make men keep their shirts on in battle. The new cream covers the places clothing cannot-hands and face...
...News Flash: The scheduled 1200-1300 study period for Company 5 on Saturdays has been concelled. Both companies will begin liberty...