Word: rusting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Zumwalt's increasingly mod Navy is a far cry from the spit-and-polish service that Cover Writer Ed Magnuson knew in the years from 1944 to 1946, and again during Korea. "After a year of advanced training in electronics," he recalls, "my first assignments were to chip rust off the sides of a submarine tender and serve as a base telephone operator...
...from work to dress uniforms for the short trip to and from their quarters; they can now travel in dungarees. Motorcycles must be allowed at all naval stations, and a cyclist cannot be harassed about the color of his helmet. Nor should men be forced to hastily paint the rust spots on a ship just because a senior officer?even Zumwalt himself?is making a visit...
...liberties will rust...
...fungus spot on the leaf may produce 50,000 new spores. They can hitchhike easily by almost any conveyance: insects, birds, even raindrops. U.S. Plant Pathologist Frederick Wellman suspects that the spores may be carried all the way across the Atlantic by storms that form off Africa, where the rust has been a problem for many years. Airborne spores have been found 2,000 feet above infected plants. Man himself is probably a carrier. A heavy outbreak in the Brazilian state of Bahia in 1967 may have begun when African delegates to an international cocoa conference inadvertently imported spores...
...expected to look over each auto, pound out a dent in a fender or reweld an improperly joined seam. Cars that cannot be fixed that quickly are taken off the line. In the winter, drafts from ill-caulked windows chill Belcher's chest, while hot air blasts from rust-proofing ovens 30 feet away singe his back. After two hours of standing on the concrete floor his legs ache, but the whistle does not blow for lunch until...