Word: vinegar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Methods for using home materials, such as pipe, tin cans, bolts and gravel, in manufacturing bombs were demonstrated and instruction was given in sabotage nuisance tactics, such as putting sand and cinders in locomotive grease chambers to create hotboxes, vinegar or sugar in gasoline tanks to stall cars. One particular trick stressed in the school was stretching a thin wire across highways at a height of 4 ft. 3 in. to decapitate enemy motorcyclists. Lest a rider detect the wire, volunteers were told to place a dummy at the side of the road to distract his attention at the crucial...
Then Hopkins & Co. encountered some thing they could not stop or divert. To the platform went a shrunken, tottery little oldster, 82-year-old Carter Glass of Virginia, a man of vinegar aspect, of high conviction, a man of law and principle, long since outmoded but steadfast in his faith in tradition's rock...
Beef preserved in glass or tins is a chemical achievement. When the U. S. entered World War I, the problem of getting food across the Atlantic was as important as shipping men and arms. Meats were smoked, beef was boned, vegetables were dehydrated, vinegar was concentrated, fruits were dried, coffee was condensed into soluble cubes. A billion tin cans paved the way to France for the A. E. F. The job was done so well that U. S. soldiers gained in weight an average 12 lb. a man. These and many more facts are pointed out in Chemistry in Warfare...
Drosophila melanogaster is the fancy name for the common fruit fly (or vinegar fly), and Thomas Hunt Morgan of California Institute of Technology is the man who made Drosophila famous. For several decades Dr. Morgan, a Nobel Prizewinner, and his numerous co-workers charted the locations of genes on the fruit fly's chromosomes...