Word: mountaintop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mountaintop had been reached. This turning point would affect the lives of all Americans next year...
...Mountaintop. One simple fact caused this confusion : while the great war itself has not been won, the American production war has. The great bottlenecks of the past are now so many shards of glass. The arsenal of democracy has be come one long, clanging assembly line, throwing off the weapons of death in unbelievable quantities. This achievement, much doubted, often hobbled by incompetence and inefficiency, is now a great fact of history. Some of the figures...
...Schumann then felt he had the formula for Table Mountain. He proposes to erect on the mountaintop two parallel fences of fine wire netting, a foot apart, with an electric potential of 50,000 to 100,000 volts between them. He thinks that these wire screens, about 150 ft. high and 9,000 ft. long, will precipitate from the cloud at least 31,000,000 gallons daily. Since the cloud is constantly renewed, winter & summer, he believes it would give Capetown a year-round water supply...
...advanced engineers, answered: "Doing great. Only lost half a mile this month." Bulldozers, trucks, tractors slid or were knocked over mountainsides in drops of hundreds, sometimes thousands of feet. One 'dozer operator ducked as a clod of dirt hit his head, looked up and saw a whole mountaintop coming down on him. He jumped clear. His bulldozer was buried. To exhume it the engineers had to blast away tons of rocks...
...helicopter can land safely almost anywhere (newsmen at United Aircraft Corp.'s plant in Hartford recently saw one put down atop a mountainous snow pile). It can travel faster than a motorcycle, hover or land where no motorcycle could travel (e.g., a wooded mountaintop). It could also be used for rescuing injured men from plane crashes in inaccessible places, might also be handy for artillery spotting. With floats it can land and take off either from water or land. If its engine fails, the helicopter can land without power, unwinding earthward at leisurely speed. It can travel through murky...