Word: sounded
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Hope could be more than a straw. It was possible last week to catch the sound of confident, reassuring voices in the Western World. One of them said...
...pile of smoke just like in the newsreels and I said: 'That bastard Stalin's started it!' " Men & women, carrying children, ran south, away from the blast. Cars loaded with frightened people sped out of town. Mayor Leonard rushed to the city hall, piled into a sound truck and rode about town bellowing reassurance. Finally, the southward rush slowed and stopped...
...long, 5½ ft. in diameter, and weighs 28,000 lbs. fully fueled. The Viking is 45 ft. long, only 2½ ft. in diameter, and weighs only 11,000 lbs. According to an observer on board the Norton Sound, the rocket launched from the ship carried a 1,000-lb. payload of instruments for studying high-altitude cosmic rays. It might have carried a bomb (perhaps a lightweight-model atom bomb...
...basis of comparable figures for the V2, the Viking might have taken the bomb to a target more than 200 miles away. If the Norton Sound were stationed at the proper point off the U.S. East Coast, Vikings could hit either New York, Philadelphia or Washington, or all three...
...Sound-Off. Near the end of the war he had his first real skirmish with Pan Am, when he tried to operate a route in Mexico, where Pan Am's affiliate, Compania Mexicana de Aviación S.A., was already well established (TIME, Aug. 13, 1945). Braniff finally lost the Mexican routes when he made the Mexicans mad by sounding off against local government officials...