Word: zeroed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...malaria killed 1,500,000 Indians; cholera killed nearly 100,000 (a death rate of 29.3 per 100,000 compared with a Philippine rate of zero to .01); smallpox killed about 50,000 (a rate of 16.2 per 100,000 compared with zero for The Netherlands Indies and the Philippines). Tuberculosis is spreading...
...admiral ordered a destroyer to investigate. For a long time the destroyer was silent, as she also threw a beam, and the admiral kept asking: "Who is it? Who is it? Acknowledge. Acknowledge." Finally came the destroyer's voice: "I am sorry to report it is Five Zero." That was the number of one of the fightingest ships in the Pacific: the cruiser Helena...
...problem was to lick the manpower and housing shortage, the intense, bone-chilling 35°-below-zero Soo winters, in order to slash the 20-month scheduled estimate. When weary workers poured the last concrete-mix a fortnight ago, the scheduled time had been slashed by seven months. For this feat, an Army and Navy E went to the Great Lakes company...
...horizon the instructor placed a scale model of a Jap ship. Black ship on black sea. Gradually the electrician turned on the dawn effect. To a landsman all was still dark, but one of the lookouts sang: "Ship! Bearing zero zero five." The black ship took faint shape as the light increased almost imperceptibly. "I think it's a carrier." It was. The artificial night was still black enough to make a cat stumble, but the lookout called the class and course of the enemy warcraft...
Slick bay, after several days computation, estimates ten per cent causalities from the attack, with an added one percent per extra assignment hinted at, broadly. So set watches, profs; zero hour, watch for snipers with red arms...