Word: torches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Correspondent Walton reported one conversation that lit up like a torch the mood of many Viennese. A middle-aged Vienna woman said to him wearily: "I suppose it will be impossible for even America to send us all the food we need to survive. But the least the Allies can do is to distribute poison to those who want it. Now we don't even have any way to commit suicide. You will see when the gas is turned on again how many of us will kill ourselves before we starve to death...
Libby Holman, torch-singing widow of Tobacco Heir (Camels) Zachary Smith Reynolds, was managing to keep expenses down to her prewar level, according to a guardians' report filed in Baltimore. It showed that last year's maintenance of son Christopher, 12, had cost the singer a routine...
...possible if there had been some quick way to cut an escape hatch in the ship. Now such a device has at last been developed. For more than a year the U.S. Navy has been performing wonders in rescue and harbor-clearing work by means of an amazing underwater torch which cuts thick steel plate like cheese...
...inch steel plate 50 feet under water at a rate of 52 inches a minute. Developed by the Navy and the Metal and Thermit Corp., it is an under water adaptation of a device known as the "arc-oxygen electrode." Underwater, it is a vast improvement on the oxyacetylene torch, which works only down to 15 feet...
...believe it. Ever since Dolly Bloomer's revolution, the girls have been trying to prove their equality with men-and, although always beaten back, they have never given up trying. This time, the Radcliffe crew, fired with the spirit of "Liberte, egalite, and fraternite," is taking up the torch in defiance of man's so-called superior athletic prowess...