Word: leatherizing
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They were singing a Ukrainian song which has no name. They leaned forward to counteract the steep trail, their long swords jangling against their stirrups, their bodies creaking on leather...
...light appears ("back over there where home is") a faint flush of warmth pushes back the cool of night. By eight o'clock it is hot and sticky. Standard dress is a pair of khaki shorts, nothing more. The soldiers, sailors and marines are all brown as leather. Men who are not manning guns usually finish their work of building, rebuilding, camouflaging and drilling two or three hours before dark, so there is time for a baseball game or a swim (being careful of the sharp coral rocks). Or perhaps a can of beer-the ration is two cans...
...traps buttoned up and only tiny periscope slits for ventilation, the temperature reaches fantastic heights -some tankers swear to 180°. Through the slits swirls desert dust, caking on the sweating faces of the four crew members into a brown paste. Beads of sweat trickle down from under their leather helmets and goggles, curl around their noses and cheekbones. Even dust masks, that they wear to filter out the dust, do not save them from coughs and rasping "tank throat...
...smell of hot oil, hot rubber, leather and sweat pervades each steel machine. To this in action is added the bitter odor of powder smoke. And when a tank stops for a moment, fumes from the noisy, thrashing engine drift forward to add to the bouquet...
...high it will go not even Brigadier General Joseph Wilson Byron, head of the Army Exchange Service, could accurately guess. But General Byron, a quiet, easygoing West Pointer who left the service to run his family's leather business after World War I and returned last July, can toy with some intriguing figures...