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...booth (152 ft. long, 100 ft. wide, 32 ft. high) will be roomy enough to accommodate any U.S. warplane (except the B19) whole or in parts. Movable partitions provide from one to eight sections for painting small planes and subassemblies. To protect workmen against spray vapors and reduce fire hazard, each compartment is equipped with a curtain of water through which air is drawn by huge fans. When all sections are operating, every minute 3,200 gal. of water will fall, 496,000 cu. ft. of air will whoosh...
...under 20, but it will not necessarily work that way: 1) Army death rate in the U.S. is 2.15 per thousand, but in Bermuda it is only half that, in Iceland only 1.62; 2) an 18-year-old could not go to Puerto Rico where the principal hazard is sunburn, but with only one day in the Army he could go into action against Japs in Alaska...
Clouds shrouded the Alps and, with the cold of the high altitudes, made icing a constant hazard. Mists lay in the valleys. But when the British bombers came within sight of Genoa the clouds had gone. Italy's old and historic city, lying at the foot of the Apennines at the sea's edge, was a perfect target under the bright moon...
Both ships had hit floating mines. A new hazard faced the United Nations, who had acknowledged the loss of 290 vessels since Jan. 14 in eastern coastal waters, the Gulf and the Caribbean...
...machines. Even pure oxygen cannot ward off bad muscular coordination; and the body and brain become weary, slow down above 35,000 to 40,000 ft. The human body, which lives a hand-to-mouth existence at any altitude, stores up little or no oxygen. The greatest hazard for altitude airmen is their conviction that they are perfectly all right when a reduced oxygen supply actually makes them act silly...