Word: vulcan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rabaul and its fine harbor dozed on volcanic fires. On a day in May 1937, the fires awoke. In the harbor, Vulcan Island exploded. Shipping was destroyed. Plantations were ruined. The town quaked for two terror-filled days. When it was over, the people swept up the pumice and tried to settle back into their hothouse calm. They did-until January 1942, when the Japs arrived...
...which an estimated 700,000 tons might be collected, shipped and processed economically. Today, the toughest problem facing WPB planners is getting greater detinning plant capacity. Of the seven large plants now in operation, Metal & Thermit Corp. (East Chicago, Ind.; South San Francisco; Carteret, N.J.) and Vulcan Detinning Co. (Neville Island, Pa.; Sewaren, N.J.) do about 85% of the business. New plants are being built by the Defense Plant Corporation at Houston, Dallas, Kansas City...
...piling up a crack operations record for the U.S.'s biggest air transportation company. To get Damon, Republic had to promise to give him back to American when peace came. But as long as war lasts, 44-year-old Ralph Damon will turn out Thunderbolts like an equable Vulcan who wastes no time in rages...
...rather than rubberlike elastomers, are Goodrich's Koroseal, Union Carbide & Chemical's Vinyon, etc. Most of these are synthetic resins, i.e., plastics flexible enough for use in hose, fuel-tank seals, etc. Thiokol, made by Dow Chemical Co., is used as a barrage-balloon coating by the Vulcan Proofing Co. of Brooklyn...
...subsidiary called Vulcan Iron Works (WilkesBarre) makes locomotives, other heavy machinery, castings. A plant in Brooklyn produces telescopic sights...