Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Democratic National Chairman William Boyle Jr. chugged into the White House to report to the chief, and chugged out again, to predict solid Democratic gains in November. He said confidently that the Democrats would retire Taft, Capehart and Donnell from the Senate. (Democrats were sure that "Mr. Republican," Ohio's Taft, was hurting himself by his opposition to the President's mobilization program...
...shock wave rushes out like a solid steel wall. At some points it is joined by a reflected wave. The two combine to apply redoubled pressure (called the "Mach front"). Behind the shock wave comes a great wind, at a speed of 800 m.p.h. A mile from "ground zero" (the point directly under the burst), the speed of the wind drops to 200 m.p.h.; 1½ miles away, to 100 m.p.h. Behind the wind comes a partial vacuum, which acts like another wind coming from the opposite direction. Three miles away, the shock wave, wind and vacuum begin to peter...
Violent earthquakes last week shook the western Venezuelan state of Lara. Worst hit was the coffee center of El Tocuyo (pop. 8,000), one of the nation's earliest Spanish settlements. Many of El Tocuyo's historic buildings were of solid colonial masonry, but every building in the town was wrecked. First incomplete reports listed 16 known dead, at least 80 injured...
...territory, and other U.S. tennis scouts might not be ready to go so far, just yet. Nonetheless, as Ham Richardson raced through the National Junior field at Kalamazoo, Mich., there was plenty to watch. Slim (155 Ibs.), tall (5 ft. 11½ in.), and still growing, Ham had a solid service, a clean, running forehand that took the ball on the rise, Fred Perry fashion, and a flat, whistling backhand (at present, his best stroke), apparently so effortless that his placements with it seemed almost accidental. He could volley and drop-volley with a skill that juniors seldom have...
Johnson fears that the roads may have lost their chance to make up this deficit. With U.S. steel mills already booked solid, there seems small chance of getting the 150,000 tons a month which the A.A.R.'s construction program requires. From bitter experience as wartime boss of the Office of Defense Transportation, Johnson knows that if steel allocations are revived, freight-car construction will be low on the priority list. (In fact, car building was banned for most of World War II.) Said Johnson: "You build freight cars before a war, or you don't build them...