Word: ponte
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Sherrod was in Melbourne when Douglas MacArthur got there from Bataan. He talked war plans in Canberra with Australia's Prime Minister John Curtin and most of the Cabinet. He was in battered Pont Moresby for its 73rd bombing-reported the American troops there positively reeked of good health on their diet of canned food and quinine, but there was not even a native woman within miles of the place. Early in May he stationed himself at a secret air base in northeast Australia from which Allied bombers were pounding the Japs to the north. He had his reward...
...Guns are now being wrapped in special cellophane immediately after finishing, instead of being immersed in oil and grease. Du Pont also announces that its familiar cellulose bottle hood is being used to close the open ends of fuel lines and other tubing during assembly and shipping...
...wind socks on Delaware's Du Pont airport hung limp and damp. The sun was pale through the heat haze. A plane flying less than 15 ft. off the ground churned through the air toward two uprights, like football goal posts, set up on the airport. Squatting under the plane's line of flight was a glider, tethered to a rope which looped in a big "U" over the two posts and back to the plane. The plane swooped in. hooked the rope. The glider shot aloft, trailing...
...ammunition or other war equipment." There Reynolds paid a visit to a TNT factory, learned the elements of explosives manufacture and the elements of Communism from one Chekotikhin, "obviously a very fervent member of the Party," who was shocked because Reynolds admitted that he had never visited a Du Pont factory...
Several summers ago, Dr. Foulger learned that Bantu miners in South Africa sweat out large quantities of vitamin C (found in oranges and lemons), frequently develop muscle weakness, even though they eat plenty of fresh fruits & vegetables. With this clue in mind, Du Pont doctors gave their workers two vitamin C tablets (ascorbic acid) a day, along with common salt tablets, to replenish the salt lost in perspiration. Result: cases of heat exhaustion, formerly four or five a day, disappeared, even when the temperature soared to over 100 degrees. The pills, said Dr. Foulger, "should prove useful in steel mills...