Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Soviet copy of a 1936 Buick. Author Reynolds was driven over desolate steppes to a new "war city." "The population was 125,000, every one of whom was connected in some way with the production of guns, ammunition or other war equipment." There Reynolds paid a visit to a TNT factory, learned the elements of explosives manufacture and the elements of Communism from one Chekotikhin, "obviously a very fervent member of the Party," who was shocked because Reynolds admitted that he had never visited a Du Pont factory...
...years Alice Hamilton has studied the ill effects of industrial poisons (lead in the paint trades, toluene in TNT plants, carbon monoxide in steel mills, benzol in airplane "dopes"), in 1924 published a modern classic, Industrial Poisons in the U.S. She also engaged in many a bitter fight to force her scientific findings on an indifferent public...
...More TNT or more food-more TNT or more nitrogenous fertilizers to make U.S. crops bumper? The answer to this tough wartime question seemed to be more TNT: Department of Agriculture scientists last week foresaw a 53% cut in nitrogenous fertilizers. Behind this possibility was the increased demand for nitrogen, source of both explosives and fertilizers. Though chemical plants now building will soon triple U.S. capacity to produce nitrogen from the air, TNT production is fast approaching 6,000 tons a day. But chemists and farmers have a partial substitute for fertilizer-nitrogen-fixing bacteria...
...Standard and its licensees, to create the world's greatest supply of 100-octane aviation gas. A variation of the same process is now used by Humble Oil in a new plant which makes 30,000,000 gallons of synthetic toluol a year for TNT. The cartel also gave the U.S. its buna knowledge, except the process for making rubber from coal, a Nazi Government-sponsored program...
...Camp Bullis, 20 miles northwest of San Antonio, Tex., demolition experts previewed the program, found it good. Potential "students" and newshawks, advised to "look up and dodge" rather than seek cover, watched a picked demolition detail lop off a 17-in. tree with "a necklace of half-pound TNT blocks, open up a 4-ft. roadway crater, send barbed-wire entanglements up in a spray. Two TNT blocks neatly halved a railroad rail. A homemade mine (an old cartridge box, batteries, scrap iron, wire, string, 6½lb. of TNT) tore the guns from an old World War I tank...