Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army lieutenant stationed at Matsuyama, Shikoku, Japan, has written a friend of mine here a story which goes as follows: "When fire bombs destroyed his church, school and convent at Matsuyama last July, Father Perez watched 27 years of labor in Japan go up in smoke...
...heartland of the manufacturing East was dead: steel was down in the greatest strike in history. The smoke lifted over Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle. The glow of slag dumps dimmed in Birmingham, Ala. The blast furnaces of South Chicago and Youngstown, from which swaying ladles had drawn the molten seed of national growth, now cooled in unnatural silence. The wonder of the world, a national capacity to produce 95,000,000 tons of steel a year, was wonderfully impotent...
...first time in months, coal smoke drifted lazily over Seoul; the Russians had come at last to Korea's fuelless capital...
...into opposition again as it got its smoke program under way. But field commanders soon found that white phosphorus, which not only screens but burns on contact, was more feared by the enemy than high explosive. The Navy was even more pleased with CWS's protective smokes. Not a ship was lost by air attack at Anzio after CWS touched off its smoke pots. At Okinawa even the Navy's big battlewagons were glad to come in under CWS's smoke to hide from the Kamikaze planes...
...difference lies in the fact that London nowadays burns far less fog-making soft coal. Although the yearly discharge of soot and ashes is down to 300 tons per sq. mi., London's diligent Smoke Abatement Society is by no means satisfied. For one thing, deaths from respiratory diseases increase during foggy weather. But, as a Smoke Abatement spokesman unequivocally stated: "The most injurious effect of fog is more subtle-in obstructing sunlight and daylight...