Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even as the last weld was made in Big Inch's main line, thick crude oil was oozing along its veins (24 in. in diameter) from Texas, up through Illinois, across Ohio. Built in one year, Big Inch burrows through eight states, tunnels under 20 rivers. Soon it will shoot 300,000 barrels of oil a day to the petroleum-thirsty East...
When Lieut. General George S. Patton Jr.'s U.S. Seventh Army splashed up the beaches of Sicily, the innards of much of its motor equipment were protected from the sea with a thick, gummy substance that was the result of a near-miracle of production back home. Last week Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey) proudly let the miracle...
Fruitful Trash. Faulkner rented a farm and conducted a serious test. He grew a thick cover crop of rye, harrowed it in, planted in a surface that looked more like a trash pile than soil. He used no commercial fertilizer, no insecticides. He shocked neighboring farmers by his unorthodox method of planting tomatoes: he simply laid each plant on top of the packed soil and threw a little dirt on its roots. Within 24 hours every plant stood up straight. The source of this idea was an old textbook picture of a seedbed. Faulkner noticed that while the seedbed...
When Lawson stood up, his legs felt numb. He walked around in circles in the driving rain. His oaths were strange and thick. His upper teeth were bent in. He put his thumbs behind them and tried to push them straight. They broke off in his hands. He tried the lower teeth-they came off in his hands too. He stood in the rain with a handful of wet teeth and gum. Davenport came up to him, held Lawson's head back, said: "God damn! You're really bashed open. Your whole face is pushed...
...Then there was an almost musical twink, and deep, deep silence inside me." He watched one nurse take hold of an ankle, another nurse take hold of the thick end, saw them carry a leg out of the door...