Word: grounding
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Ever since dusk the ground-crew men had been tending the long, silvery B-29 like acolytes, running their flashlights along her vulnerable joints, pumping her broad wings full of 8,000 gallons of high-test gasoline, gently hoisting a dozen 500-lb. demolition bombs into her wide bays. By 11 o'clock pilots, navigators, radarmen, engineers and gunners tumbled aboard for a 2,400-mile training flight. With them went Brigadier General Robert F. Travis, the handsome, battle-tested commander of the air base and "old man" of the Ninth Bombardment Wing, to keep a sharp...
...advanced. At midweek, tank-led Red columns drove through Chinju and on toward Masan, only 30 miles from the main U.S. supply port of Pusan. West of Masan the grim and battered G.I.s of the U.S. 24th Division threw themselves into the line once more, and the Red advance ground to a halt. Lieut. General Walton H. Walker hastily moved the 25th Infantry Division to the southern front to shore up the 24th. This week the 24th had moved north, was facing another Red assault on the Naktong River...
...deadly is a curie? Thirring starts with the assumption that 2,000 roentgens (the unit of radiation) will kill a man. After considering many factors, he concludes that a radioactive poison spread over the ground at the rate of two curies per square meter would give a man eight roentgens of radiation per hour. In about ten days this would build up to the lethal dose of 2,000 roentgens. The period of grace, thinks Ridenour, makes radiological poison a rather humane weapon. The inhabitants of a contaminated city could save their lives if they set out promptly...
...dealings in Middle East oil, he has become one of the richest men in the world; 2) by judicious purchases, he has put together one of the finest collections of old masters in existence (TIME, Feb. 14,1949). Neither of his distinctions was achieved without a knowledge of the ground rules. Last week, to get some ground rules changed, Collector Gulbenkian had the busy U.S. Congress amending the Internal Revenue Code for him. The change would also work out for the benefit of U.S. art lovers...
Stolidly, fire fighters and policemen remained above the ground in the city during the raids. Mayor Wu was usually in their midst, dashing from fire to fire, from crisis to crisis. He became a sort of glorified La Guardia; to Chungking's Chinese -and to many an American-he became a hero...