Word: stream
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...incendiary bomb with a fine spray. Douse it with a strong stream of water from a hose...
Thus OCD last week reversed its No. 1 rule for fighting incendiaries, after new experiments at the Army's Civilian Protection School (in Maryland). Hitherto air-raid wardens and firefighters have been warned again & again that a solid stream of water played on an incendiary will produce a blinding explosion and sudden death...
...they are told that a solid stream is far better than a spray because: 1) It extinguishes the bomb in only a few seconds instead of several minutes-and incendiaries are usually dropped in clusters, demand quick action...
...services have called upon the colleges to supply a continuous stream of officer material, and the campuses of America have become a maze of recruiting offices. Each service, vying with every other to fill blue-sky quotas, is dangling free deferment before the students' eager eyes. Little attempt is being made to fit the supply of college men to the specific needs of the various armed forces, and Selective Service Headquarters finds itself on the spot as the Army and Navy Reserve plans cut the heart from its quota. Many students, skeptical amidst the wealth of opportunity, are still "waiting...
...necessary to train the mass of experts needed on all fronts, but after six months there are still no national directives. Few people know which jobs are most vital and who can be spared for them. No attempt is being made to release potential combat power by supplying a stream of the physically unfit for civilian tasks. The possibility of preparing women to take over in the nation's offices and laboratories has scarcely been investigated. Individual colleges have spurred on ahead of the rest, but what is needed is not a "Yale plan" or a "Harvard plan...