Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was the Helena. She had gone down in 20 minutes, but her bow had floated a little while longer. Then it, too, was gone. She sank gently, without exploding, the thick oil bubbling black as the Pacific night from her shattered hull. The men went over the side, into the oil. There was no fire...
...thick overcast had opened up just in time to let Arpaia do his act. Even that miracle would have been wasted except for the quick efficiency of the bombardier, his teammate Navigator Dick Davisson, and their pilot, Captain Vernon Iverson. Arpaia, Davisson and Iverson are one of the crack teams that guide the massed Fortress flights over Europe. Such teams are used sparingly; on them depends the mission's success, for under the new bombing system only the bombardier of the lead Fortress and a few others scattered through the formation do the actual sighting; at their signal...
...tobacco shortage imminent? From the rich, leaf-growing lands of the south, a thick smoke screen, pungent with reports of short crop and runaway prices, swirled up around the tobacco industry last week. Over the radio, cigaret programs vaguely hinted at a shrinking supply. Newspaper ads pleaded for patience if favorite brands were temporarily exhausted. To ration-wise citizens, all this spelled shortage. But what was behind the smoke...
...Clear the way for those rabbis." the stationmaster shouted. The 500 orthodox Jewish leaders, most of them with shrub-shaped beards, many in silky cloaks with thick velvet collars, filed silently through the hurly-burly of Washington's Union Station. Marching off to the Capitol, they presented to Vice President Henry Wallace and a group of Congressional leaders a seven-point petition...
They sweated it out in mangrove swamps and jungles so thick that one force of Pioneers, unopposed, could make only four miles in two days. Enemy resistance was spasmodic but fierce. Japs, as before, had to be dug out of holes. Japs leaped from the dark tangled jungles on stretcher-bearers carrying wounded. As on Attu, Japanese hugged grenades, blew themselves and their attackers to bits...