Word: airfield
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...upon living in the middle of a busy thoroughfare, and is consequently being run over constantly by omnibuses and motor-lorries." In the mechanized 20th Century, the land bridge between Europe, Asia and Africa is busier than ever. Now it is not only a military highway and a vast airfield. It flanks the Suez Canal. Its soil is crossed by oil; 42% of the world's proved oil reserves are puddled below the deserts of Iraq, Persia and Saudi Arabia. One of the vital pipelines from the British-controlled Iraq fields stretches across Palestine to Haifa. A convenience...
...basically the same as those by which the Army flew two pilotless and crewless Flying Fortresses from Hawaii to California a fortnight ago. But a "mother" plane is not always needed. In short-range test work all the flying signals can be sent from a truck on an airfield...
...sunk $792,985 in the airfield, which has two swimming pools on its 180 acres. It was knocked down to the Institute for $407,000 less a "100% discount" (i.e., for nothing). The War Assets Administration has sold 60 war surplus properties this way. Samples: Willow Run Air Base to the University of Michigan, the Bendix Aviation Corp. plant in Philadelphia to Temple University...
...Vienna last week, the simple question took strange forms. The Russians promised that their exuberant flyers would stop using U.S. passenger planes for target practice; next day, they used U.S. airfield installations instead. The Red Army had seized the head offices of the Danube Shipping Co., while the U.S. still held on tightly to the company's barges in the U.S. zone. Meanwhile the Russians presented to the Austrian Government a 43 million schilling bill for "food supplied to Vienna"; most of which Austria's peasants had taken from Austria's own soil...
Almost every flight into Buenos Aires had been canceled, but George Messersmith's plane bulled through the wintry rain and made Morón airfield on schedule. The new U.S. ambassador was a man in a hurry. He had come to negotiate with Juan Perón. To the Army major and Navy lieutenant who brought the President-elect's wishes for "a pleasant stay in Argentina" he rasped: "Tell the Colonel I appreciate his saludos and hope to see him soon...