Word: interrupter
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...Germany's war machine in Norway has had to travel by sea since Sweden recently withdrew tank-car rights on her railroads. To interrupt the oil traffic, and to lure any nearby German naval units into a fight, the mighty British Home Fleet (battleships, cruisers, destroyers) last week sailed 800 miles into Arctic waters. The Home Fleet also made naval history: it served as an escort for an American aircraft carrier...
...Congressional investigations which interrupt, war plant routine, and the multitudinous forms which executives must fill out, should be drastically reduced...
...Above all, Rome, as a center of Italian rail communications, forms an integral link between northern and southern Italy. It was to interrupt this vital line of supplies for Axis armies in the south that U.S. bombers twice blasted Rome's most important railway centers, the San Lorenzo and Littorio yards...
...anything. Finally he got some mail himself. His family was moving from Lorain, Ohio (where his girl lives), to California, so he would have plenty of fresh air and open spaces when he got home. Sergeant Jerkovich is now living in a desert where the only thing to interrupt the fresh air and open spaces for 50 miles around is a herd of sheep...
...frequent-a survey of sulfas taken internally shows that some toxic reaction occurred in 29.8% of sulfapyridine cases, 11.8% of sulfathiazole and 7.7% of sulfadiazine. Most of these reactions are not dangerous, merely a nuisance (e.g., nausea, vomiting, dizziness, mild anemia, lack of appetite, tingling sensation), and do not interrupt treatment. But some rare reactions may prove fatal unless caught early. Even the less toxic sulfa derivatives can cause trouble: three cases at Johns Hopkins Hospital suffered not only kidney damage but brain injury from sulfathiazole; two majors in the Army Medical Corps last winter stated that seven...