Word: leveling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Chungking ought to be the world's safest city in wartime. It is surrounded by terrain so rugged that it would be almost impossible to assault it by land. It is embraced by two treacherous rivers, whose water level has been known to change as much as 40 feet in one night. Eight months in the year it is roofed with dense fog. Built on a rock 750 feet high, it is honeycombed with deep, bombproof caverns, with room for 200,000. But the Chinese never learn. They still think standing under trees makes them safe from bombs. They...
Pride of the U. S. Army Air Corps is its secret bombsight, which is accurate for level-flight bombing at altitudes as high as 18,000 feet. Pride of the German Luftwaffe, apparently lacking an instrument of such uncanny accuracy, is a more primitive but certainly effective means of putting air projectiles down on the bull's-eye: dive bombing. Last week, from the Marne to the Scheldt, Nazi airmen in ungainly, single-motored Junkers Ju.87s were on the go from dawn to dusk, dropping out of the dazzling sun in near-vertical dives on docks, factories, ammunition dumps...
...mutually binding relations of power among the European States, to maintain and secure the necessary protection in the rear for big British aims in world politics. The traditional trend of British diplomacy . . . was deliberately aimed at preventing by all means the rise of any great European Power above the level of the general scale of magnitudes, and, if necessary, to crush it by military means.-Mein Kampf...
...gleaming steel & stone station is unusual. Because of the technical difficulties of transmitting from the mineral-veined peaks, the 400-ft. pylons supporting the antenna rest not on native rock but upon special copper-bound, earth-filled piers sunk into mountaintop Lake Engolaster, 4,900 feet above sea level. Twenty-three hundred feet below, overlooking the valley, is a modernistic, three-story granite building which houses the control panels and living quarters of the operators. From its dizzy perch Radio Andorra has the strength to make itself easily heard in England, Italy and France: 200 watts of power would...
...Sept. 21, 1917, 65 steel executives, whose prices had soared that summer to 370% of the pre-war level, met with the new War Industries Board in Washington. Before them lay a schedule of lower prices which the Board had worked out. Judge Elbert H. Gary of U. S. Steel addressed Judge Robert S. Lovett of the Board. "May I ask," asked he, "by what authority the War Industries Board has undertaken to fix these prices...