Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sugar famine and 1929 put Celotex into receivership. Reorganized under Dahlberg, Celotex acquired control of Certainteed Products Corp. (roofing, gypsum, plaster), began to merchandise many of the products required to build a house. Celotex makes Cemesto-a waterproof, fire-resistant building material 1½ inches thick, made of an inner core of Celotex faced with an asbestos cement-and with Cemesto hopes to mass-produce future U.S. housing...
Soon there were quite a few small boats: some mere chips on the waves, with three or four rowing men, some bigger ones, holding a dozen men and driven by leg-o'-mutton sails. In the boats there were fugitives bearing weapons, water cans, cans of rations, automobile inner tubes as sea insurance. The destroyer paused and picked up the fugitives. Then she went on with her not-too-difficult job of tidying up the sea, like a lawn-keeper in a park spiking bits of blowaway paper on a stick...
...Bronx. Built on small concrete piers, it is unique in having its framework, like a snail's, on the outside. The structure is composed of two practically independent parts: 1) an arch-shaped roof made of insulated panels and supported by posts; 2) rooms, formed of demountable inner & outer panels* which can be shuffled around at will under the roof. Thus the structure has no weight-carrying walls...
There is a saying that the only thing which tires a Gurkha is walking along a flat place. They went up Djebel Fatnassa with their wicked kukris, long curved blades sharpened on the inner edge, at the ready. In Nepal they use kukris to cut their enemies' heads off. At Djebel Fatnassa they reached their objectives with hardly a sound; dying Italians made the only noises...
...life that gives you a new sense of accomplishment. . . . You have a feeling of vitality. You are in the heart of everything. . . . There is an exhilaration in [war]; an inner excitement that builds up into a buoyant tenseness which is seldom achieved in peacetime...