Word: seales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found owl, gull, squirrel, seal, walrus, whale, caribou...
...with hot pitch for calking, used mountain ash for hardwood. He set Russians and natives digging for coal and iron, made waterproof paint from whale oil and red ocher. His ship had three masts, two decks. For sails Baranov commandeered tents, trousers, jackets, sewed them into great sheets with seal gut thread...
...stand upon their immediate southern line, somewhere near the Volga, or to withdraw to their bastions in the Urals. Then the Germans will measure their huge losses in men, planes, tanks and guns against the sure wear of winter, against the certainty that this year or never they must seal their conquest in southern Russia with victory in the Middle East. Then Hitler will know. Then the world will know. Not before...
Jack Reese joined Continental as purchasing agent in 1931, partly because he remembered the glory decades when the company's famed "Red Seal" engines were used by 90% of some 600 independent automakers. But the glory was gone. Instead, the company blew its cash on fancy airplanes, a fleet of chauffeured limousines, a fling into the highly competitive, low-priced passenger-car business. In 1939 the big boot of RFC was evident when the old bosses faded out and Reese became president...
...about 10,000 employes, it is the No. 1 maker of 440 h.p. air-cooled radial tank engines, ships thousands of them each month to Chrysler, American Locomotive, other tank builders. At another plant, workers piece together hundreds of 275-h.p. radials for training planes, scores of compact "Red Seal" engines for trucks, busses, mining equipment. Reese spent $3,100,000 on betterments last year, is spending $700,000 this year. Meanwhile he is hard at work testing a huge, 2,000-h.p. liquid-cooled engine designed for the mammoth cargo planes now planned by many U.S. aircraft makers...