Word: powders
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their flash, they place a spark gap close to the gun's muzzle so that the bullet passes just below the electrodes. The hot gases and burning powder which follow the bullet enable the spark to jump the gap, completing the circuit and discharging the voltage through the vacuum tube. Only one picture is taken at each shot. But by moving the spark gap nearer to or farther from the gun's muzzle, the bullet can be snapped at various points of its trajectory...
...acre memorial to himself ran into an obstacle. Some 3,000 feet dead east of the 5,000-foot east-west "instrument-landing" runway lies historic Fort Mifflin, which held out, but not long enough, against the British when they besieged Philadelphia in 1777. Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack on so much...
...last March Mayor Wilson has tried to get the explosives out of Fort Mifflin. So touchy a spot, he has argued, is as much a menace to Philadelphia as to the airport. But the Navy Department stubbornly insisted that there and nowhere else will it keep its Delaware Bay powder. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Authority announced it would withhold approval of the field until the direction of the dangerous runway was changed. WPA withdrew the 800 workers working at the field...
Snow Skiing in. Bartlett, N.H. Fair Good 12 3 in. new powder Canaan, N.H. Cloudy Poor 6 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Snowing Good 37 4 new over 33 windblown powder Cohway, N.H. Cloudy Good 13 4 new fluffy Dartmouth Region, N.H. Good 10 6 in. new Franconia Notch, N.H. Snowing Fair 24 5 in, new over 19 base Fryeburg, Me. Cloudy Good 11 7 new over 4 in. base Greenfield, Mass. Cloudy Fair 3 1 in, granular on hard crust Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Good 13 4 in. new fluffy Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 4 in. new powder Laconia (Gilford...
...TIME attempted an ironic shot, but the powder was damp...