Word: geigers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tiny tubes, an inch and a quarter long, had been thrown out with a trayful of dressings. The search built up gradually. Staff members, using a Geiger-Müller Counter (an instrument for detecting radioactive rays), successively poked into the incinerator, the laundry, the garbage, wastepaper baskets, the hospital floors, roofs, foundations. No luck...
...hospital, thoroughly alarmed, called a council of its whole biophysical staff, insurance investigators, city engineers. Soon they were in full cry through the town, taking Geiger-Müller soundings in doctors', nurses' and patients' homes, the city dumps, the city hog farm, the sewers. The hospital staff began to think up desperately ingenious tactics. New manholes were opened, miles of sewer explored. Since water screens radium rays, the searchers debated draining the sewers or dragging sensitive film enclosed in a rubber hose through the water...
...Guadal, when some of the airmen were griping about the holes in the runway, Geiger walked down to an SBD (Douglas dive-bomber) spotted on the apron, climbed in. Without a single escorting fighter, the Old Man took the SBD off the flight strip, flew north to a village where the Japs were headquartered, dropped his 1,000-pounder, went home. His pilots got the idea...
...another occasion, the General was asked to loan his personal Catalina flying boat to help PT boats flush a covey of Jap ships. Geiger first refused ("Got it filled full of holes the last time you fellows flew around out there"), finally gave in. But there was a string attached. He insisted on going along as copilot...
Beyond this flair for cold-blooded fire-eating, Roy Geiger is a thoughtful soldier and one of the Marines' most carefully educated officers, with courses behind him in the Army and Navy war colleges, the Army's Command and General Staff School. Like airmen, groundling Marines have long since decided that he is a handy man to have around...