Word: inches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Near Hugo, Colo., when Farmer Hutchins went to bed one evening last week, three-inch green shoots covered his 50 acres, promising a 20,000-lb. yield of beans. At sundown the next day every single sprout had been devoured down to the ground, below the ground. The land was almost out of sight beneath a dusty- grey, endless horde of grasshoppers, plodding inexorably onward, eating every shred of living vegetation. There were dozens and scores of 'hoppers to the square foot, millions to the acre, trillions to the county. Government scientists and reporters crunched around the countryside...
...submarine victims did not help to relax the nerves any. The first attack came at night, in a grey light that made a submarine invisible except for a dim white ripple. The torpedoes missed by a hair. When an oily patch showed where the submarine had been, the five-inch guns on the Baton Rouge stopped firing. The captain's big grin marked the hits. Occasionally they picked up a few survivors from a torpedoed boat ahead. Armed guard duty, which consisted of operating a gun aboard the freighters themselves, was the riskiest job of all. So Rex transferred...
...Moscow excited correspondents filed dispatches recalling Stalin's words of several months ago: "The Soviet Union does not want an inch of anyone's territory and will not yield an inch...
...attack steel casing or tubing. The acid doctor pulls out the tubing and pumping equipment, runs the tubing back with a packer 15 ft. above the bottom so acid will not run up the hole, squirts in 1,400 to 3,000 gal. of HCl. Rushing through a two-inch tubing, the acid eats into the | limestone so fast that it creates a partial vacuum at the top of the line...
...Advancement of Science was holding its annual meeting, and informed the whole scientific world 1) that a virus was a huge molecule composed basically of nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen and oxygen, weighing 17,000,000 times as-much as a hydrogen molecule, and measuring one seven-hundred-thousandth of an inch in diameter; 2) that he had crystallized a typical virus (which causes mosaic diseases in tobacco plants) by chemical treatment; 3) that he had modified the virus molecule chemically and produced other types of plant disease; 4) that he had made the molecule inactive. All this proved, said Dr. Stanley...