Word: heights
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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High jump--Tie for first between Harrigan (H) and Bulleit (RIS); tie for third among Benesh (RIS), Sherman (RIS) and Best (H). Height...
Pole vault--Won by Sherman (RIS); 2, Lawrence (H); 3, Lockett (H). Height...
Performance figures of the X-1 have not been released. The Air Force says that it has flown "hundreds of miles" faster than sound. It has probably flown above Mach 2 (1,324 m.p.h. in the cold upper atmosphere) and reached a height above 60,000 ft., a record for airplanes. The big secret - what happens as it passes Mach 1 -is well kept. Chuck has been so carefully coached on this detail that he knows how to ward off questions before they are asked. Possibly something dramatic happens. It would be just as dramatic, perhaps more so, if nothing...
...plant, indigenous to the west coast of South America, which resembles a blackthorn bush, grows to a height of eight feet...
...pulled by a car or jeep), has been developed by the Sun Oil Co. Starting from a known elevation, an odometer records distance traveled. A pendulum indicates up & down grades, and an electronic calculator works out, by trigonometry, net changes in altitude. Valuable in oil prospecting, the apparatus enables height surveyors to work three times as fast as they could by rod sighting, saves them from such occupational hazards as sunstroke and frostbite. ¶An electronic I.F.F. (identification, friend or foe) device which can be coupled directly with gun-aiming equipment was announced by the National Security Resources Board...