Word: arctic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chidlaw, test pilot and engineer who directed development of the first U.S. jets, got another pioneer assignment: create the machines and the organization to defend the U.S. against air attack. Four years later, the nation has a Continental Air Defense Command that is on 24-hour duty from the arctic to New Mexico (TIME, Dec. 20). But it no longer has the benefit of its founder's experience. Last week, at the age of 54, General Chidlaw retired with...
...calculated in one case at 682 m.p.h. They have been recorded in every month of the year and every state of the union, but May gets the most (22%) and so does Kansas (618 in 35 years). Between the Rockies and the Appalachians, as nowhere else on earth, cold arctic and hot Gulf winds collide, coil and writhe...
...pleasurable problem of keeping up with demand. Coonskin hats, the biggest seller next to anachronistic Davy Crockett T shirts, have touched off the biggest run on raccoons since the giddy '205; coon tails once selling for 25? a Ib. are now nearly $5 a Ib. Seattle's Arctic Fur Co., which has shrewdly been buying wolf pelts for years, is producing 5,000 ersatz coonskin hats daily. In some stores Davy Crockett accounts for 10% of all children's wear...
...next step in the war." says Zhukov, "was to prevent Hitler maneuvering." This Zhukov did in a series of masterly battles, the sweep and magnitude of which have never been equaled. Over a front that stretched from far inside the Arctic Circle down to subtropical Sukhumi, he manipulated some 300 divisions. Every man or woman who could walk was either in the army or in a war factory. Factories in the Urals were pouring out tanks and guns. Vital supplies of ammunition, aircraft, gasoline and trucks were arriving from the Allies. Zhukov began to knock the stuffing...
...must be great parabolic "dishes" 60 ft. in diameter. But long-jump has uses that are vitally important in military communication, where construction of short-range relay stations is impossible or impractical. For example the long-jump method could be used across the water gaps and wilderness stretches of arctic Canada, where it would make sense to relay to a rear headquarters the pictures picked up by the far-flung radar outposts. There have been hints that a part of this system is already installed...