Word: fuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Apparently the fuse cap on the shell's nose, which detonates it when it strikes its target, had exploded prematurely. When the smoke cleared, the captain and three members of the Marine gun crew were dead, three others lay dying, ten were injured. The 26-year-old Wyoming, demilitarized and used as a training ship since the London Naval Armament Limitation Conference of 1930, is the Navy's second oldest battleship. A court of inquiry promptly met to investigate the Navy's second fatal explosion on the San Clemente training grounds within seven months. The Navy...
...Jonesboro, Ark., after the Charleston, Mo. fuse plug levee was dynamited, a freshly-painted four-room house settled on Farmer J. D. Griggs's land...
...River to the mouth of the Red River. The third was the Atchafalaya Floodway from near the Red River to the Gulf, west of New Orleans, a route only half as long as the main channel of the Mississippi. Instead of being raised three feet like other levees, the "fuse plug" levees at the mouths of these floodways were left at the old level so floods would wash over them. Still a fourth protection was devised, the Bonnet Carre Spillway not far above New Orleans, to pour flood waters out of the main Mississippi channel into Lake Pontchartrain which...
Even so. when the Ohio rushed down on Cairo, Ill. at the junction of the Mississippi with 57 ft. of water, almost a foot above the record level, Army engineers decided to use force to disband armed farmers who were preventing them from blasting out a protective "fuse plug" to route floodwaters through the Birds Point-New Madrid floodway. Prolonged and abnormal local rains had already sunk Arkansas farther into its gumbo, raised the waters of many a Mississippi tributary. Little Rock reported that twelve State highways were out of use. Big Slough levee gave way and thousands of acres...
...Diego. Calif, doorstep a vigilant bodyguard spied a beer bottle filled with black powder, instantly snatched out the bomb's fuse in time to save the house of General Plutarco Elias Calles, exiled onetime Mexican President, who was playing cards inside...