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...objective of the air-and-sea assault seemed clear: 1) to harry the likely retreat of the Germans to a line in north ern Italy; 2) to soften the way for another and greater Allied invasion...
Heat treating (controlled heating and cooling) is a necessary step in steel working to soften or harden the metal. Ordinarily, steel oxidizes rapidly at furnace temperatures (around 1,600° F.), forming a scaly surface. This must be cleaned off mechanically or chemically, thus altering delicate dimensions. But with a lithium atmosphere in the furnace, steel parts come out bright, all ready for assembly...
...Senate debate produced five alternatives to the Finance Committee-endorsed Ruml bill, all designed to soften the blow of new taxes or increased tax rates on the mass of voters, by some measure of doubling up on 1942 and 1943 tax payments. They were sponsored respectively by Senators from Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and two from Texas. (Average per capita income in these four states in 1940 was respectively $395, $315, $257, and $411, against a national average...
Stronger Tea. Up to last week censors in China had allowed U.S. correspondents to identify two Army bomber units and one pursuit group. General Chennault said that this initial force's job would be to soften up Jap strongholds in China, put the Japanese on the air defensive. More U.S. planes and crews will have to complete the long journeys to Africa, India and China before the Army Air Forces can take a decisive role in China's war or carry the war to Japan itself...
...then sifted past magnets, which draw out any bits of iron. Next it is dumped into a "digester" tank where 1) caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) is added to destroy all cloth fibers and to remove free sulfur (added originally in vulcanizing); 2) coal-tar oils are added to soften the rubber. These added chemicals and decomposed fibers are rinsed out in water sprays and settling tanks. At last the rubber is squeezed into heavy sheets and baled for reprocessing...