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...squat little guns on either side of the quarter-deck sent TNT-laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...
...High water on highways and railroads meant delay in production of many war materials, delay in shipping goods already produced. Logansport, Ind. has five plants with war contracts; all had to be shut down. Four war plants in the St. Louis area, including Atlas Powder Co.'s great TNT plant, were closed either because incoming raw materials did not arrive or because water entered the buildings. In Arkansas the Big Inch broke, reducing the East's oil supplies even more (see p. 18). At Dupo, Ill., near St. Louis, one of the nation's largest freight yards...
...speeches in Standard's vast and drafty old boiler shop at Bayway, N.J. Even as Standard's new president, Ralph W. Gallagher, spoke, the six-million-dollar "cat cracker" was running full blast, spewing forth a censored quantity of the basic ingredients for high-octane gasoline, TNT and synthetic rubber...
...three followed a path from being scientists to being top industrial executives. But most important, all three have participated in the invasion of petroleum research into the chemical field. That invasion has now borne fruit. Most important wartime petroleum by-product is toluene, the basis of TNT (trinitrotoluene) which the industry now provides at many times the scale of World War I when it was derived from coal. Another critical petroleum derivative is butadiene, basis for synthetic rubber (TIME, Nov. 30). Vital to the war, derivates of petroleum may be equally important in the post-war era. Just as research...
...resulting explosion, even of a 19-lb. German Teller mine which contains 11 Ib. of TNT, is no more than enough to blow the tread off a tank, or sometimes to blast a hole in its thin-skinned belly. But stalled tanks are vulnerable targets...