Word: smokelessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...employes of Trojan Powder Co., in the rolling country northwest of Allentown, Pa., had just settled down to their hazardous day's work one morning last week. They were making sensitive detonators for blasting, TNT for the Navy, smokeless powder for the Army. It was around 8:30 when they heard it, a sound anyone could recognize, the dull boom like the slamming of an underground door. Sixty miles to the east, at Woodbridge, N. J., the dust and debris settled over what had been the plant of United Railway Signal Corp., over a horrible group of ragged bundles...
...Britain. One dav last week, in a solvents recovery building, something went wrong with the brew. A small explosion made employes in the other 49 buildings take alarm. Flames shot from the windows of the recovery house. Before men could let go their held breath, 200,000 pounds of smokeless powder went up in a hell's delight of flame and thunder...
Last week in Washington the War Department grabbed time by the forelock, signed a $16,075,000 order for smokeless powder to be turned out by Hercules Powder Co. (operators of the famed Charleston, W. Va. nitro plant of 1918) from a mill still to be built near Radford, Va. Only the week before the Army had signed a $25,000,000 contract with Hercules to put up the plant and operate it on a cost-plus basis. It was the second construction contract to be let in 1940's defense emergency for a powder mill to be operated...
...defense is properly loaded, Major General Charles Macon Wesson, Army Chief of Ordnance, has many an other contract to allot. Congress has already appropriated and authorized $244,000,000, is now ready to lay out $700,000,000 more for powder plants, for great factories where smokeless and high explosive will be loaded into small-arms ammunition (pistol, rifle, machine gun), aerial bombs, artillery shells. The Army has laid out plans for building 33 plants in five U. S. areas, has specified that no plant shall be within 200 miles of any U. S. border...
...early in the week (TIME, July 15). announced a "general agreement" on the Rolls-Royce job, considered asking for an RFC loan. Meanwhile the War Department made a deal with Du Pont (which virtually forswore the munitions business after the last war) to operate a projected $30,000,000 smokeless-powder plant at Louisville. First of four such plants to be built and owned by the U. S., it will have a daily capacity of 200,000 lb., more than double the present total U. S. output...