Word: smoked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...crew made up chiefly of kids from The Bronx, Brooklyn and South Boston, and Idaho-born Dixie Kiefer knew how to handle them. The Ti was ragged at first-she would sometimes zig when she was supposed to zag. Her stack often poured smoke. But she settled down. Soon she was breaking records for launching and recovering planes. The raw kids became sensationally good...
January 21 was partially overcast and we were southeast of Formosa. On the Essex we were eating noon chow. At 12:09 the 5-inch guns opened up, and the bell clanged for general quarters. Everybody rushed topside. The Ticonderoga was bil lowing black smoke 300 feet high. Seven planes had sneaked through. Six were shot down but the seventh crashed through the Ti's flight deck. She was badly...
...antiaircraft guns on a dozen ships opened up at once. Five Japs fell flaming into the sea, three of them victims of the Ti's own guns, but the sixth, though he was burning in three places, plowed straight into the Ti's smoke pall...
Along Long Island's Jones Beach rolled a truck, laying a curtain of thick white fog like a smoke screen. Within a few minutes, flies and mosquitoes in its path were observed to stagger and collapse. In half an hour, every insect on the beach was dead. Next day, the four-mile beach area got another fog dose. By the time weekenders arrived, a few hours later, the DDT beach test was clearly a "100% success...
This spectacular show was staged last week to demonstrate one of the most promising methods yet found for applying the wonder insecticide, DDT. The Todd Shipyards had rigged up an insect-killing version of its Army & Navy smoke-screen generator. The contraption sprays a dry, odorless, stainless cloud of fine oil particles containing a 5% solution of DDT. The fog disappears in a few minutes, leaving a deposit of DDT crystals on everything it touches...