Word: smokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safety in Smoke. Other CWS researchers made fire into a weapon to sweep whole cities. When Japanese planes swarmed over Pearl Harbor the U.S. had not a single incendiary shell or bomb in stock. Military bigwigs were not even interested. But CWS went to work and turned out 260,000,000 of them...
...which people ordinarily run-its weathered shacks squat dismally in a muddy hill hollow amid slatternly fences, outhouses and discarded tires. The women and children straggled past the empty coalies on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad spur, and up a barren knoll to the tipple of the Belva Mine. Smoke and burned fragments of cardboard and paper were puffing hotly from the tunnel mouth...
...tunnel, for no sound had been heard outside. There was fire in the coal only 500 feet in, and more fires beyond. There were innumerable slate falls and blockades of rubble. Timbering was shattered, the ventilating system dam aged, and there was blackdamp as well as thick, choking coal smoke inside...
...evil smoke rose from Peiping's Forbidden City. By order of the National Government, a public bonfire was consuming 800,000 ounces of confiscated opium. China's great drive against the drug traffic was under way again...
...Toyama's words: 'Send us missionaries. We need them. But tell your people to send us men who are not so much concerned as to whether or not we smoke or dance. Send us men who have a message of internationalism through Christian brotherhood, whose devotion is to truth and love, not passing fads and fancies...