Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...railroadman should be allowed to work within one or two weeks after treatment with any drug of the sulfa group, warns the Association of American Railroads. These drugs often befuddle the mind, impair judgment. Sulfa befuddlement has caused at least one train wreck...
Ever since the Nazis started streaking like fire toward Russia's oilfields, observers have wondered: How do you wreck an oil well...
...hands of the examining police. For four days early in January 1 was forced to squat for hours in the Japanese fashion while four policemen slapped my face, kicked me and made feints at strangling me until my knees were covered with open wounds and I was a physical wreck...
...Future is Still Clouded. Mass production of a complicated chemical product split into many component parts can produce all kinds of unexpected bugs. Though at least theoretically, raw materials and equipment are not as hideously short as rubber itself, any holdup there could wreck the program all over again...
...Japanese radio poured poison into Chungking. Where were the planes, the pilots, the bombs the U.S. had promised China? Why all the painful, handmade preparation of airdromes for U.S. airmen who would never come? Jap bombers would wreck the fields, the Japanese army would capture them, before the Americans could use them to help China's armies or to bomb Japan. And, if the Americans did come, the Japanese would chase them from the skies...