Word: oils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Superforts sent fingers of flame and explosive probing deep into the sources of enemy war power. Two small attacks searched out key Japanese oil plants. Two big raids hit airplane factories and ports on Kyushu and Honshu. It was the middle cities, the Patersons, Wichitas and Tacomas of Japan, that now heard the crump of bombs, the crackle of fire...
...British Empire, oil-rich, rubber-rich Sarawak is an in dependent patch on the northwest rim of Dutch Borneo. Britain's control stops at defense and foreign affairs. For a century Sarawak was the absolute domain of the Brooke dynasty, founded in 1841, when a swashbuckling English adventurer, James Brooke, quelled an insurrection there for the Sultan of Brunei and proclaimed himself Raja...
Some other major medical "errors": examination of children's ears with otoscopes, also surgical puncturing of their eardrums (responsible for many ear infections), mineral oil nose drops (they may cause pneumonia), premature attempts at straightening teeth. Doctors, says Dr. Bakwin, are prone to diagnose flat feet, large tonsils, malocclusion, heart murmur and poor posture as serious ailments when they are only normal variations that would be better let alone...
Carrier's Escape. The Bunker Hill's fight for survival lasted through many agonizing hours. A huge pillar of smoke billowed from the after half of the ship, where blazing gasoline and oil sloshed around. Crewmen manned hoses in the face of flames which scorched them to the limit of endurance. Part of the Marine detachment stayed in an ovenlike compartment, throwing bombs and rockets overboard. Tons of water, covered with burning gas and oil, were spilled off over the side in a sharp, skillful turn worked out by the navigator, Commander Charles J. Odend...
...Florez, chief of the Special Devices Division (which was incorporated this month into the Navy's new Office of Research and Inventions). To help solve the Navy's training problems, de Florez gave up a lucrative (about $100,000 a year) practice as consulting engineer to several oil companies. A bland, exuberant genius, he has invented scores of big and little gadgets (including an electric flytrap at the age of eleven). He originated most of the 1,475 projects completed by his office to date, was rewarded with the Legion of Merit last month...