Word: fuse
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blast earlier this month from C. Donald Dallas of Revere Copper & Brass. Dallas' com plaint: in October, Japan got 3,775 tons of zinc, in 1940's first ten months, 12,042 tons. Meanwhile, Brass mills working on cartridges, shell cases, detonator caps, rotating bands, fuse caps, other munitions for British and U. S. use, have had to curtail production and delay deliveries...
...Russia. But Germany and Italy would like to have a go at bothersome Turkey. Excuses for a campaign in the Balkans were a dime a dozen. Italy had one all ready: border strife between Greece and Albania. Troop concentrations threatened a major short circuit at that partly burned-out fuse last week. The way had also been paved by the partition of Rumania and the abdication of King Carol. By last week the Iron Guard's revolution in Rumania had been completed, and a full division of German troops was reported moving...
WASHINGTON--The United States will fuse more than 125 naval vessels and an undisclosed number of airplanes operating in the Atlantic into a now patrol force which will be periodically expanded, the Navy announced tonight...
Standard capacity of each of the 18 plants making explosives will be 200,000 lb. in an eight-hour day. Not until all are built, not until the 15 supplementary loading and fuse plants are completed, can General Wesson and his staff of technicians breathe easily. They will not breathe easily for a long time. Best estimate is that Du Pont and Hercules, starting their building almost together and putting on full steam, will not be in production for twelve or 13 months. How soon other contractors would volunteer to take on the building and operation of other similar plants...
...obscure Govern ment lawyer, but when the death of General José Sanjurjo made Franco leader of the Rightist revolution Serrano saw his chance to impose his ideas on the politically uneducated Generalissimo. Lean, tanned and photogenic, Serrano has a driving nervous energy. His was the idea to fuse Spain's heterogeneous Rightist elements - Carlists, Monarchists, Traditionalists, Fascists - into the Falange. While the soldiers fought at the front, he organized behind the lines; when the war ended, the Falange kept dissident elements among Franco's supporters from splitting the regime apart...