Word: soils
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...population). The proportion in Nagasaki was about the same. Japs who died from radioactive waves were within one to two kilometers of the blast. All physical damage was instantaneous with the explosion; no rays "persisted," as Jap doctors once claimed, in the soil...
...birth had served with the U.S. forces, how they trained in each other's schools. Cheers shook the windows as he made an eloquent, earnest plea for cooperation to keep the peace for the sake of "white crosses, standing in regimented clusters throughout a thousand leagues of foreign soil...
...East Side, the Rev. Elmore M. McKee assailed the plan as "an example of organized paganism. . . . These men died not for things material but for indestructible values of the spirit. . . . We cannot afford to get bogged down by a misguided, obsolete and patriarchal patriotism which demands American soil for American bodies. Let the dead rather finish the work they...
...Bricks, clay sewer pipe, structural tile, gypsum board, gypsum lath, cast-iron soil pipe and fittings, cast-iron radiation, bathtubs, lumber and millwork...
These hungry oil-eaters promise a new method of spotting oilfields. Hydrocarbon gases, such as ethane and propane, often leak in small quantities through the cap rock above an oil pool. When they reach the surface soil, bacteria lap them up, thrive and multiply. By looking for such bacteria, or signs of their past activity, geologists may smell out their larder, the oil pool down below...