Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Congress, the Treasury and the President were now off in a veritable spray of buck-passing. On Capitol Hill happy members rolled out the pork barrel, singing a song of defense. The House Rivers & Harbors Committee, traditional Congressional gravy boat (composed of members who never let their right hands know what their lefts are doing), last week dusted off the defunct old $150,000,000 Florida Ship Canal, named it a defense project, urged an authorization. Other measures were...
...told him that the Seventy-Seventh Congress, in its first 100 days, had voted appropriations totaling $16,091,543,000. For his readers' benefit, he spelled it out: "sixteen billion, ninety-one million, five hundred and forty-three thousand dollars." Newshawk Smith then went off in a small spray of words like "staggering . . . stupendous . . . unrivaled since the dawn of creation." Carefully he added: "I am in some doubt whether the half has been told...
...Army and am armed with the Garand. I was with the 1st Division Task Force when we made beach landings on the Island of Culebra from Jan. 27 to Feb. 13, 1941. We too had to make landings in small boats and the rifles did become wet with salt spray and were dragged in the sandy beach. Many were dropped into the water also. But in the entire company, I did not see or hear of a case where the rifle refused to fire...
...board assumed "that troops have landed through light surf [as Marines must often do] and that rifles were dropped or dragged over wet sand in reaching cover on the beach." The rifles were exposed to saltwater spray (but not actually soaked in water), dropped in wet sand. Results: the Springfields fired "in the normal manner." But "the bolts on the two [Garands] could not be opened by hand after the first and second shots respectively. The firer had to stand up and use his foot against the operating handle in order to open the actions. Both [Garand] rifles ... failed this...
...four methods of putting them out. The first method is to smother them with the tin tops of garbage cans. But there are seldom enough covers for all the bombs, so everybody is now familiar with the second method, which is to smother them with sand and then spray them with a hand pump attached to a water bucket. A third fairly effective method for whiskey drinkers is to spray the bomb with a soda-water siphon. Fourth and most dangerous method, about to be demonstrated by the woman in the picture below, is to pick...