Word: areas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fire case will not come to trial for an estimated five years. But if it is decided in the plaintiffs' favor, it could have far-reaching results, facing Chicago and other cities with an endless procession of negligence damage suits after any fire, explosion or accident in an area where the city is charged with safety inspection...
Data on the electromagnetic effects of the blasts showed that the upper atmosphere was so disturbed by ionizing radiation "that some radio waves were absorbed or scattered" for hours afterward. Result: communications were upset or blacked out over an area "at least" 3,000 miles in diameter. Obvious conclusion: a megaton bomb exploded high overhead just ahead of an all-out missile attack could disrupt vital defense communications for a few crucial hours...
...particles racing round the world. A nuclear bomb exploded over the Indian Ocean, Pentagon officials told the committee, could theoretically disrupt radio communications in Moscow, some 7,000 miles away. Similarly, a blast set off high over the tip of South America could interfere with communications in the Washington area. But to make such interference effective, bombs much larger than Project Argus' relatively small 1.5 kiloton bombs would be required...
...economic area-the level of industrial output per man-hour -Russia is still far behind the U.S. U.S. national product per man-hour has been rising even faster than national product per capita (which is by far the highest of any nation), has'jumped at a rate of 35% to 40% a decade since World War II-and is still growing by the day. The reasons for the growth, says the report, are not only an increase in the volume of capital goods (of which the U.S. has more than any other nation), but the U.S.'s large...
...Britain again had more than $3 billion in gold and exchange in the till-and new self-confidence. It freed the economy from a tangle of regulations, lowered income and corporate taxes, made sterling convertible, and announced the end of import restrictions against most goods coming from the dollar area...