Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Selective Moving. U.S. divisions will leave much of their equipment where it is to save time and precious cargo space. Galoshes, snowpacks, etc., useful in Europe, are no good in the Pacific. Tanks, jeeps, trucks, bulldozers, steam engines and countless items of heavy equipment worn with use will not be worth the space needed to ship them. The same goes for small arms, which wear rapidly in combat and will mostly be left behind. The one exception will be heavy equipment which is hard to replace (e.g., big guns...
When the great Jap campaign got up full steam in October, Gleason's band was ready to tamp in charges, fuse them and blow. Waiting until the last possible moment before the enemy advance, Gleason finally started the destruction...
...Dauntless, a converted steam yacht formerly named the Delphine, after the late owner, Mrs. Delphine Dodge. Usually tied up in the Anacostia River, it provides Admiral King with living quarters...
...operation, the "cow" cools just the right amount of TNT to just the right temperature, then pours it through nozzles into 24 shells mounted on a carriage. After further cooling, the shells are probed by the steam-heated "bayonets," all the way down to the bottom, where cavities usually form. Then the "cow" fills in the space that remains...
...planned another "spotlight affair." This time it's a trip to the mountain North Conway, New Hampshire, for a ski weekend. This trip has already shown the sings of Jack's genius for the novel--at least on paper--what with a troupe of well stocked St. Bernards, steam-heated boots...