Word: vaporous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second time, Vice Admiral Marc Andrew Mitscher took the famed fast carrier Task Force 58 into Japanese home waters, and sent off air strikes against airfields around Tokyo. This time coordination with Major General Curtis E. ("Old Ironpants") LeMay's 21st Bomber Command was closer: hot on the vapor trails of Mitscher's planes came more than 200 B-29s with more than 1,000 tons of bombs to batter the Tokyo area and secondary targets, further isolating the battlefield...
...Peace. His large hands firm on the podium, his breath turning to vapor in the raw winter wind, Franklin Roosevelt then delivered his shortest inaugural speech (573 words). It would probably never be considered a great speech, but it indicated the President's mood and temper. There was no reference to domestic affairs, nothing but a passing remark on the war. The President's thoughts that day were on the kind of world that will follow the peace...
Wonders to Come. As liquid or vapor, silicones are sprayed on all sorts of materials to make them waterproof; they form a thin, invisible film which does not change the feel of the material. As oil or grease, they make ideal lubricants. As plastics, they are extremely tough. Some silicone wonders promised by engineers...
...reconnaissance pilot was astonished at finding a V-2 zooming toward his plane over Europe, close enough for him to try for a picture. But the whooshing rocket was too quick for his camera and his plates showed only V-2's trail of vapor-"like a Bronx cheer in smoke...
...front (see cut, right). Behind it is a gas-combustion chamber. At the takeoff, the gas is ignited. When the bomb is in motion, air rushing into the jets opens them, passes into the combustion chamber, sets off an explosion which closes the jets and expels the expanding vapors from the rear end, giving the bomb a forward push. As the vapor escapes, air opens the jets again and the process is repeated, 45 times a second, to give the machine an almost continuous thrust...