Word: exhaustive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stealth. No gun salvos in Moscow record the guerrilla's exploits: they are small victories, pinpricks in a war of titans. But enough pinpricks can bleed, exhaust, inflict painful wounds. Last week, a Soviet communiqué recorded these pinpricks...
Artistically it was a success. The New York Philharmonic-Symphony under Howard Barlow played Schubert and Wagner to a big, enthusiastic crowd. But the costs in transportation and union wages were so high that it was obvious that a few more such ventures would exhaust all of Boss Petrillo's $250,000. In Chicago, he told the whole story...
...fund would be required to pay out gold to any creditor nation demanding it, a heavy run on the central fund could conceivably exhaust the reserve, make the fund unable to meet its gold commitments...
...October 1937 two N.A.C.A. engineers patented a continuous system for using exhaust gases to vaporize water in a boiler built around the exhaust pipe. The vapor traveled into a long, perforated pipe inside the front edge of the wing; the condensed vapor drained back into the boiler. The boiler added more weight to the plane, and there was always the leakage danger inherent in any water-circulation system. But this impracticable system was the beginning of last week's new idea...
Early in 1941, spurred on by reports of German developments, N.A.C.A. appointed a committee to study the possibilities of using engine-exhaust heat. Water plays no part in the new system. Instead, air is heated as high as 350°F. by the exhaust pipes, is circulated through the wings's leading edges, keeps them at 60°F, no matter how far below zero the outside temperature goes. Satisfactory tests in far-northern climates lead engineers to hope that the long search is finished. If so, the U.S. can relax about what was once the No. 1 peril...