Word: sprayings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cruel Sea. One of the best of the World War II films, based on Nicholas Monsarrat's bestseller and filled with the salt spray and shellbursts of naval warfare (TIME...
...ride as much on air as on water, yet be controllable. The result was Slo-Mo IV, which the Detroiters have now grudgingly copied; but, as this week's race proved, they have not yet caught up with Stan Sayres. Throwing up a saucy rooster tail of white spray as she churned round & round the 3¼-mile course, Slo-Mo IV rubbed the Detroit boats in her wake. Behind on only one lap of the three-heat, go-mile race, she racked up speed records for a single lap and a full heat. First owner ever...
...Sailor Bill Taylor, managing editor of Yachting* conceived a plan for racing dinghies in the winter, dubbed it "frostbite" racing. This chilly, spray-dashed sport, with its quota of icy dunkings, takes place on days when even the most avid snowbird golfer or polar bear swimmer sits by the fire...
Chemical Hoe. A new chemical spray called Alanap (N -I naphthyl phthalamic acid) that kills weeds and crabgrass before they emerge from the soil, but spares farm crops and grass, was announced by U.S. Rubber Co. One to three pounds an acre is sufficient to control weeds among row crops for three to eight weeks. Price: about...
FCDA is correct in saying that its shelters will protect some people, who happen to live in wooden houses at the proper distance from an explosion that does not set the houses on fire or spray them with radioactivity. Not all atom bombs will conform to such conditions...