Word: quonsets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...augmenting man's age-old efforts to get in out of the rain. Minnesota's Schjeldahl Co.'s polyester plastic balloon structures can be built in half a day, need only an ordinary building fan to keep them inflated, will last five to ten years. Quonset-shaped, the Schjel-dome will work in the arctic or the tropics, can be used for garages and greenhouses, swimming pool covers and grain warehouses, is repaired with a hot iron...
...Anderson is the spray gun's hottest marksman, has used it to give vaccinations against typhoid in Brazil, cholera in Pakistan and Thailand, yellow fever in the Sudan, influenza at U.S. Navy stations. Now medical officer of the Quonset Point Naval Air Station. Dr. Anderson responded to Rhode Island health officers' appeals for help in mass immunization by working at makeshift clinics on his own time. He had so many takers that he has had to squeeze in his Air Station work in the mornings, now gives afternoons and evenings to the civilian clinics, which are scheduled...
...become so big, the PX has changed greatly since its founding 65 years ago to sell horse blankets and snuff. From the raggle-taggle mobile units and Quonset huts that most G.I.s remember at the end of World War II, the PX system has moved into fancier quarters, now includes shopping centers the size of a city block. They are designed to meet the needs of the new-style serviceman and his family. Eighty-seven percent of all officers and some 50% of all enlisted men are married, with an average of two children. Says the wife of a sergeant...