Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sustain heavy losses of men while building a Navy strip on a Pacific island which is attacked twice by the Japanese. An ambush designed to trap the Japanese fails of success because of the blundering of Payne, who leads his men--armed only with rifles and riding bulldozers and steam rollers--into the teeth of the landing force. Later he redeems himself by saving the island from a second attack. The whole affair makes the necessity of having an armed construction corps apparent to Washington, and the Seabees (tarantara) are organized...
...company under 77B, and became president at 28. He thought he knew the company's trouble: "You can't live on locomotives, because they never seem to wear out." And there was little demand for a longtime Porter mainstay, a fireless locomotive that ran on stored steam. So he started to make things that did wear out, pressure vessels, evaporators, etc., for the chemical, food and oil industries. But when the war boom hit, he hastily revised his ideas about locomotives...
...showing that wildcatting is now at an alltime high; in all, estimated 5,000 wells will be sunk this year, a whopping 1,500 over last year's record high. As OPA sent its plan along to Stabilizer Vinson for approval, it hoped that it had taken the steam out of the drive for an overall crude-oil price increase...
...Hercules Powder Co., which worked on the problem for many years, the new method involves a powdered resin called Stabinol. The powder is spread on the soil, a few pounds per square yard; then it is harrowed in six inches deep and the soil is packed hard with a steam roller. The result is a smooth, dry surface that sheds water like a duck's back. It is good for tennis courts, athletic fields, earth dams-and especially for roads. The Army has already begun to use it for roads and airfields...
...Harbor, was repaired by Seabees this time and cleared for Seattle. In the Gulf of Alaska she ran into a gusty blow, hove to for eight hours, cracked again, rigged chains to relieve the stress. When she finally made Puget Sound, she was leaking but still under her own steam...