Word: killinger
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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The maker of that Jap-killing torpedo director was no oldtime munitions outfit, no veteran precision manufacturer, no war-wise Naval ordnance plant. It was energetic, ingenious General Mills Inc., which before the war was a peaceful flour miller (Gold Medal, Bisquick, Wheaties). But last week General Mills was running...
Died. Nikola Tesla, 86, "electrical wizard," inventor of the Tesla transformer, the Tesla induction motor, discoverer of the rotary magnetic field principle; in Manhattan. Croat-born, he came to the U.S. in 1884, worked briefly for Thomas Alva Edison, became a great electrical inventor on his own. In his old...
CHUNGKING--Chinese troops, in their greatest victory of the past six months, have completely upset the enemy campaign in the Honan-Anhwei-Hupeh border triangle of central China after killing more than 3,000 Japanese, it was announced tonight.
Lower animals fight from a variety of causes.. Some fight because, as beasts of prey, they live by killing and devouring. Animals may fight their own kind in a tussle over a mate or some choice morsel of food. They fight to defend their young, their homes, or their...
Smoke & Flame. Near Aberdeen, at the Chemical Warfare Service's Edgewood Arsenal, the correspondents saw some of the Army's devious ways of killing by nonexplosive methods. >Old-type flame throwers sprayed liquid fuel (from canisters strapped to the gunner's back) in a diffused spurt which...