Word: airfield
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...Along the twelve-mile ride from the Charleston airfield to the campus, the President stood in the back of an open convertible, waving his left, nonpitching arm to the South Carolinians who lined the route. He remarked to General Clark "This looks like campaign time...
...into their electronic apparatus, measure their distance from Camden by comparing signals from the three antennas, and pinpoint their positions within ten miles. When a pilot gets close to his destination, he will switch from Navarho's beam to a short-range station, follow it in to the airfield...
...solid-rubber tire. Well-heeled pros who turned up for the Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance last week brought their cars by rail or trailer, by plane or ship-any way but under their own power. The 5.2-mile course on Sebring's abandoned airfield was enough to tear the guts out of the finest engine. Mechanics needed every available minute to get an entry in shape. Minutes lost in the pits might well decide the winner...
...morning next week, at the drop of the starter's green flag, some 80 crash-helmeted drivers will break into a dash across the concrete runway of an abandoned airfield and pile into their sports cars. The whining racket of racing engines will shatter the Sabbath, and the little (pop. 5,000) town of Sebring, Fla. will come alive to the excitement of the fifth annual Florida International Twelve-Hour Grand Prix of Endurance...
...enemy troops that had been on the mainland across from the Tachens have now moved south, in spite of repeated Nationalist air attacks on their junks. Red surface craft have moved south of Wenchow, and are operating from small ports between Wenchow and Foochow. The Communists have a jet airfield at Foochow-across from Matsu-and can now ship fuel from Shanghai to Foochow without much trouble from Nationalist air. Washington believes that when fuel stocks at the Foochow base are sufficiently built up, Red MIGs will appear there...