Word: flashings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flash on United Press wires-JAPAN ACCEPTS-set off a few more celebrations around the world. In Sydney, Australians attacked firemen and wrecked their trucks when the authorities tried to water down a victory riot. In the two minutes before U.P. discovered that somebody had played a dirty trick (see PRESS) the U.S. and Canadian radio had gone overboard, and thousands were roaring in the streets...
...through the substratosphere. Colonel Paul Warfield Tibbets, the pilot, took back the controls and ten pairs of eyes strained at the plexiglass windows as Tibbets turned the plane broadside to Hiroshima. It took less than 60 seconds. Then the brilliant morning sunlight was slashed by a more brilliant white flash. It was so strong that the crew of the Superfortress Enola Gay felt a "visual shock," although all wore sun glasses...
...first bomb dropped on the city of Hiroshima (pop. 344,000) and its great quartermaster depot raised a great, mushrooming cloud of dust and smoke which no reconnaissance camera could pierce. It was no propaganda flash in the pan. General "Tooey" Spaatz and his new chief of staff, Major General Curtis LeMay (see below), were ready with the atomic wherewithal to give Japan the awful rain promised by President Truman. That rain was bound to make the war shorter than it would have been. But how much shorter...
Pietro Mascagni had one flash of genius. He was 26, a penniless ex-conductor of a fourth-rate itinerant Italian opera company, when he heard of a prize contest for a new one-act opera. In eight feverish days and nights he wrote Cavalleria Rusticana, a fast-moving, lyric tale of love and murder in a Sicilian square at Eastertide. It won the prize, got its composer 40 curtain calls at its first performance in May 1890, and subsequently the Order of the Crown of Italy. In Manhattan, Oscar Hammerstein produced Cavalleria in English, and the Metropolitan Opera...
...secret of this "safety fuel" is a blend of added materials which raises the gasoline's flash point, i.e., the point at which it vaporizes and forms an explosively inflammable mixture with air. Ordinary high-octane gas vaporizes to this degree at temperatures as low as 40° F. below zero. The flash point of Standard's new fuel is 105° above zero. Thus at normal temperatures it gives off no inflammable vapors, is safe as kerosene...