Word: sanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...live in a tiny, weatherbeaten shack back of the sand dunes, and we can peek at the ocean by stretching our necks a bit. Our neighbors are a motley crew: mostly men who seek only escape from their pasts, their responsibilities, or their sins. Whatever the reason, they've found some sort of peace here on the beach. Until we began ?o circulate among them with our books and magazines, there was an undeclared war constantly going on. One had built a 10 ft. fence to keep out prying passersby; one was a grouchy old codger...
Smack. In Sand Lake, Mich., John W. Vos, suddenly remembering that he had not kissed his wife goodbye, turned back, collided with a car driven by his wife rushing to overtake...
...like creature, much bigger than known sea turtles, called a niuhi in Easter Island and a moha-moha in Queensland. It may range all over. Last winter, says Ley, a large unknown animal tried to climb a sea wall in Florida, leaving great moha-moha like tracks in the sand...
...Sand & Snow. U.S. Army Ordnance had wanted such a power plant ever since maneuvers in Alaska proved that conventional liquid-cooled engines were impractical for such climates. It put Continental, the biggest maker of air-cooled engines for tanks in World War II, to work. Jack Reese claimed-and Army Ordnance backed him up-that the engine will operate efficiently in desert heat or Arctic cold, and weighs only one-third as much as liquid-cooled jobs of equivalent horsepower. Developed by Continental Engineers Carl F. Bachle and Edward A. Hulbert, the new engine is simple in design and requires...
Electric Trigger. The problem of getting oil out of its protective sand-and-stone armor is as old as the first well. For years oilmen used dynamite, and topped the charge with water. No better method was found until two Los Angeles oil-machinery salesmen, Wilfred G. Lane and Walter T. Wells, tackled the problem in 1932. In a few months they developed their perforator gun, which can fire as many as 128 bullets in any desired direction. Its force is great enough to pierce five layers of steel casing and concrete, make enough fissures in the surrounding strata...