Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...silk stockings evaporate from the nation's store counters, cosmeticians are rushing in to challenge rayon. Liquid stockings are on the way. Last week in New York, one salon opened a "Leg-Bar"; showed waterproof, streak-proof, runproof, cosmetic stockings in giant lipstick form (called "leg-sticks"), in spray guns, in cakes, in bottles. Seams are applied with an eyebrow-pencil. To many women the whole thing sounded messy...
...pint-sized gun that shoots a spray of molten metal is saving U.S. wartime industry hundreds of thousands of dollars and hours of labor. The Army & Navy have 750 of these hot-metal guns in use this week. Aircraft makers are using thousands. The new tool is indispensable in 1) the manufacture of airplanes; 2) their maintenance by the Army & Navy; 3) the repair of ailing machinery which, owing to the dearth of metals and machining facilities, would be scrapped or stand idle...
...spray gun is a fist-fitting gadget which trails three rubber hoses and a ⅛-in. wire-the charge. Two of the hoses feed acetylene and oxygen (as in welding) to a 6,300° F. flame, melting the wire. From the third hose, compressed air blows the hot-metal droplets in a molten mist that coats a surface with a smooth film as tough as a weld...
Suddenly Washington looked at the wave and grew afraid. It was mounting too high, it might spill on a reef of bad news in a spray of broken hopes. Abruptly the news changed. Washington tried to drive the wave back...
Next nightfall the division was south of the Strait. The old destroyers boiled up to 27 knots and the bones in their teeth broke and swept across the flush decks knee-deep in spray and foam...