Word: neared
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...blowing up barracks, buildings and other installations which the Chinese, whether they arrived in the morning or next week, might find useful. Similar demolitions went on at the same time in other parts of the U.S. perimeter. Withdrawing 3rd Division infantrymen blew their rail and motor bridges behind them. Near Hungnam X Corps engineers blew up another railroad bridge along with almost 400 freight cars and 30 locomotives. They said they definitely weren't going to blow up the new 1950 Japanese cars. At least they had had no orders...
...threemile, six-furlong race at Sandown Park near London, Queen Elizabeth's five-year-old steeplechaser Manicou romped in by six lengths to win the $1,120 purse. The Queen stepped beaming into the winner's circle, patted her horse, gave a well-done to jockey and trainer. All in all, she appeared to have recovered from the blow of last fortnight, when her other steeplechaser, Monaveen, broke his leg in a race and had to be destroyed...
...interstellar travels during the excitement about flying saucers, and he was helping out in the front lines during the first months of the Korean war. Currently, the captain (aided by invisible planetary friends) is fending off an all-out invasion of the U.S. by the "combined forces of the Near East, the Far East and Eastern Europe...
...fish of the Columbia have been affected by this phenomenon. Although the radioactive stuff does not seem to hurt them much, they become radioactive enough to "take their own pictures." When a "hot" fish caught near Hanford is laid overnight on a photographic plate, it leaves an impression showing its bones, gills and head glands where the radioactivity has concentrated...
Radioactive fish are not the main problem; water free of dissolved solids is essential for other reasons too. In its search for the best place for its new plant, the AEC narrowed its choice to a site on the Red River near Paris, Texas and the site on the Savannah. The two rivers are equally muddy, but silt can be removed by a comparatively cheap filtering process. The Red River, however, carries a large amount of dissolved material which would have to be removed by a chemical process costing $40 million a year. The Savannah gets its water from...