Word: tnt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...announced to newsmen last week at the award of an Army & Navy "E"' pennant to a Du Pont plant at Perth Amboy, N.J., where hexamine is made. The other ingredients of the explosive are secret, but the Army described its properties: it explodes faster and more violently than TNT. Apparently it has been used so far only in bombs, for which it is ideal...
...Unlike TNT, which calls for ammonia, sulfuric and nitric acids and toluene, hexamine requires no critical materials. Its basic raw ingredients are coke, air and water. Total production in U.S. in '1941 was 4,000,000 lb. New factories built since then have multiplied that output many times. But before war came, hexamine was a minor industrial product. Its chief uses then were in the manufacture of plastics and as an ingredient in an antiseptic for the urinary tract...
...squat little guns on either side of the quarter-deck sent TNT-laden depth charges hurtling into the dark sea. Then another burst, and another. The ship's stern bucked like a blooded stallion. From the sea came a lightning flash and muffled thunder, then the water fountained. The next and the next charges were deeper, making the sea boil and rumble...
...High water on highways and railroads meant delay in production of many war materials, delay in shipping goods already produced. Logansport, Ind. has five plants with war contracts; all had to be shut down. Four war plants in the St. Louis area, including Atlas Powder Co.'s great TNT plant, were closed either because incoming raw materials did not arrive or because water entered the buildings. In Arkansas the Big Inch broke, reducing the East's oil supplies even more (see p. 18). At Dupo, Ill., near St. Louis, one of the nation's largest freight yards...
...speeches in Standard's vast and drafty old boiler shop at Bayway, N.J. Even as Standard's new president, Ralph W. Gallagher, spoke, the six-million-dollar "cat cracker" was running full blast, spewing forth a censored quantity of the basic ingredients for high-octane gasoline, TNT and synthetic rubber...