Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With only a paper model under his arm, "Hurry-up Henry" finally went to F.D.R., the man with whom he works best, got the President to order 50 carriers built. Next came an even bigger hurdle - a shortage of turbines, gears, diesel engines. Finally he adopted a little-known steam engine invented in 1912, one never used before on large ships...
Built at Clydebank, Scotland, in 1896, she was one of the finest steam yachts of her time, a stately and luxurious craft of 1,780 gross tons. (J. P. Morgan's famed Corsair was 2,181 gross tons.) In 1898 the Navy snapped her up for conversion as an auxiliary war vessel, paying $430,000 to the Ogden Goelet estate. She saw action, took part in the blockade of Havana, chased three Spanish warships, scored a hit on one with a 5-in. shell...
...Shibe Park after a seven-day road trip. In the first of a four-game series with Brooklyn, they gave the Dodgers the bum's rush, 8-to-2. They lost the second game on a seventh-inning homer, 3-to 2. The Sunday doubleheader, played in steam-kettle heat, was all Brooklyn, 9-to-4, 6-to-0. But townsfolk fought shin and elbow to welcome the Phillies home...
Said hustling, optimistic Sidney G. Walton, 42, vice president and secretary of the Matson lines: "We're not trying to keep out competition. We are not interested in it. This is a modernization program. We changed from sail to steam, didn...
...fruit and vegetables to be dried must be picked when they are just ripe and dried at once, before they begin to lose their freshness and flavor. Before they are put in the dehydrator they are cleaned, peeled and cut in small pieces; vegetables are blanched with steam, fruits blanched or sulfured with fumes from a sulfur candle. They lie in the dehydrator for seven to 20 hours (tomatoes and pears take longest) at a drying temperature of about 145°F., finally emerge a tenth of their original size and are stored in a cool, dark place in moisture...