Word: saltingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hissing for pianissimos like a music-loving gander, the goateed, salt-&-peppery conductor waved the orchestra into Delius' placid The Walk to the Paradise Garden. Suddenly Sir Thomas Beecham heard a sound that was not in the score...
When the Kearny was struck, to her side steamed a slim, salt-crusted four-piper with signal flags whipping from her bridge. It was the U.S.S. Greer...
...soldiers in the North Carolina maneuvers went the first of 38 carloads of Baltimore ice cream last week. Railroads had to pack this precious freight in dry ice and kapok blankets instead of the usual wet salt and ice. So important was the shipment considered that it was granted right of way in transportation over tanks, trucks and guns...
Secret of the new intensity: the 182-ton steel tower of the transmitter rests on four porcelain insulators set on concrete pedestals on an island poured between a few rocks in Long Island Sound off New Rochelle, N.Y. (TIME, Sept. 2, 1940), and is completely surrounded by salt water, the ideal "surround" for radio projection...
Production of small-arms ammunition is a more complicated problem and its solution less advanced. Only one of the six small-arms ammunition plants scattered by Ordnance between Salt Lake City and the Mississippi is yet producing; some are six months or more from production. Today the Army has not enough ammunition to give its soldiers adequate rifle and machine-gun practice. But by next March, perhaps before, there will be enough for any foreseeable contingency. Big question: What about unforeseeable contingencies...