Word: marylands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this is costing the 40,000 U.S. auto dealers a pretty penny. Maryland dealers last week figured that it cost them $450,000 a month to store and service 30,000 new cars frozen in the Government stockpile. Although OPA allows a dealer 1% a month service charge (average: $10), he collects only when he sells the car-if he can get it from the buyer. The best any about-to-go-broke dealer could hope for this week was that the RFC would bail him out and take all new cars off his hands...
...fashion glued-wood planes at its Maryland factory, where the aircraft industry's first women guards patrol the production lines, Fairchild puts the almost paper-thin veneers under heat and pressure in steel cylinders. Baked and pressed into shape, they are free of the rivet-bumps on aluminum alloy planes, do not wrinkle, as metal does, under the impact of gusts...
...only race track within 25 miles of Philadelphia. Operating in midsummer, between the closing of Delaware Park and the opening of Havre de Grace, it will fill a gap in the midEastern Seaboard's horse-racing circuit. Well aware that racegoers have spent record-breaking millions at Maryland and New York tracks this spring, ingenious Mr. Mori figures that his park should attract plenty of Philadelphians this summer. It is 10? by bus, 12 minutes by auto (even at 30 m.p.h.) and only 200 yards from a main-line Pennsy depot. But Mr. Mori may not have figured...
...balance: the civilian frontier might not change for the duration. Axis as well as Ally feared the terrible retaliation. Alabama's Senator Lister Hill demanded masks for all industrial workers- and soon. The Army had established civil defense courses on five campuses (Amherst, Texas A. & M., Stanford, Florida, Maryland)-and the courses featured gas instruction. Good Old Mustard. U.S. armed forces publicly recognize 16 chemical warfare agents. None is new. There are seven poison gases, five smoke agents for screening, and the trustworthy incendiary, thermite. The poison gases: mustard, lewisite, ethyldichlorarsine, chlorpicrin, diphosgene, phosgene and chlorine. Mustard...
...mysterious plant growing on his Maryland farm, treated with chemicals, was the basis for a rubber substitute produced by one Homer Pilkington...