Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dealings with the Navy, Huck was equally brash. When the Navy suggested that he change the location of the PT-69's toilet, he replied that he would then have to run its drain pipe into either the exhaust or the officers' filing cabinet...
...Trinidad. Every evening between 5 and 8, when Anopheles bellator swarmed in the villages, he and his assistant paid the native boys to .stand still, let the mosquitoes settle on their arms and legs. The scientists then clapped a glass tube on every insect, sucked it into a little pipe, trapped it. Thus they caught 5,000 mosquitoes, dissected 725. Of these, three were found to carry the malaria parasite in their stomach or salivary glands...
Blown Up, Flown Up. Although powdered magnesium is explosive, solid magnesium is no more combustible than aluminum or iron, both of which also burn in foil or powder form. (To prove this point one metallurgist went about smoking a magnesium pipe.) But today less than 5% of U.S. magnesium goes into military pyrotechnics and scavenging; 95% goes into definitely nonflammable alloys of which about 80% goes into airplanes...
...aircraft carrier has come a long way since the experimental Engadine, a converted Channel steamer, first sent aloft an observation plane to find out for Admiral Beatty what was going on at the beginning of the Battle of Jutland. (The plane wobbled home with a broken gas pipe and the news that the Germans were heading south, but the Engadine failed to get this intelligence to the Fleet.) Throughout the early '20s U.S. Navy men agitated for first-class carriers, got two of the best when the Lexington and Saratoga were commissioned in 1927. First U.S. ship specifically designed...
Together they went into Calgary from Keoma, the little Alberta town where Victor Ramberg struggled to make a living as a grain-elevator salesman. Victor Ramberg bought two lengths of hose pipe. Next day, after dissuading his wife from wanting to die with the baby, he attached the hose to the exhaust of his 1935 Hudson, put the other end in the child's crib, started the motor...