Word: packetizing
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Captain Walker knew that bullets account for less than 40% of battle casualties, that a cigaret case, a pocket Bible, a packet of love letters will sometimes stop a metal sliver. He concluded that a curved steel plate, easily slipped into a special pocket of a gas-mask container, would protect most of a man's precious lights...
Like many another college town, Princeton, N. J. has no daily newspaper. Princeton citizens get their news of the world from papers of nearby Trenton, Philadelphia, Manhattan, local news from the collegiate Princetonian, which has no Sunday edition, from the Herald and Packet, both weeklies...
...when Asahel Bush ("Asahel I"), a young (26) Massachusetts attorney and printer, had clapped a printing press into the hold of a Yankee clipper for the 15,000-mile voyage round the Horn, lit out himself by packet boat for the rich, raw, pioneer Oregon Territory. He founded the Oregon Statesman at Oregon City, later moved to Salem when it was made the Territorial capital, became State printer, by 1862 was rich enough to retire from the publishing business...
...doing in Britain), argues that even though war wages run high, the working class suffers an actual loss in "real wages" from this "spiral of inflation." It is obviously much more to the workers' advantage, he insists, to be left at the end of the war with a packet of 2½% securities than to have nothing left but the memory of fat pay envelopes which somehow turned lean in the spending...
...November 1861, when the U. S. Civil War was just getting going. Captain Charles Wilkes of the Union Navy, commanding the screw sloop San Jacinto, fired a shot across the bows of the British Royal Mail packet Trent as she steamed along the Bahama Channel. The Trent hove to and, under the San Jacinto's guns, surrendered to a U. S. boarding party the persons of James Murray Mason and John Slidell, commissioners on their way to represent the Confederacy in Great Britain and France, respectively...