Word: rim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rather their job is to dig up background information and usually-overlooked detail, so that TIME'S editors can give you the taste and smell and feel of the battles around Africa's rim -and the quality and flavor of the men who are fighting those battles and preparing for new ones and secretly working to win without battles...
Engineer McGay's system is simple: 1) The rim (which should be drop center) is cleaned and smoothed; 2) the valve (preferably oversize) is fitted into the regular valve opening in the rim, secured with a lock nut and rubber washer; 3) holes and cracks are sealed with cold patches or vulcanized; 4) all irregularities are sanded smooth, especially on the beads; 5) the tire is mounted, then blown up rapidly and tapped at the same time to make sure that the beads seat themselves evenly; 6) tire and rim are immersed in water for the usual bubble test...
...fruit juice with the supper ration provides more moisture. The canned-meat ration is so hot from the desert that no fire is necessary. For coffee the tankers sometimes fill a tin can three-quarters with sand, pour in a little gasoline, sink it in the ground to the rim and throw in a match. The gas flames steadily, just long enough to boil the coffee...
...mechanic drove him home. Wee Boy did the chauffering and things went smoothly until they got a flat tire. A mechanic came down from Memphis to fix the first one. Old Man Town chopped the second one off. After that they got along for a while on the naked rim...
...Press-for four years President of the Aviation Writers Association-has been in and out of practically all the big U.S. plane plants and training fields. He is a licensed pilot-and has flown more than 150,000 miles on assignment-to Alaska and Europe and all around the rim of South America. Probably he brings to his job a wider background knowledge of aviation-both in the flying field and the factory-than any writer in the country...