Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What he experienced at the critical moment when he crossed the sonic barrier is a tightly guarded secret. But when he looked at his instruments after a few moments, he realized that he was flying actually faster than sound. The terrible sonic wall lay far behind. The X-1 had not disintegrated. It still flew beautifully ("a pilot's dream") and Chuck was still in one piece...
...suggesting the country as a made-to-order bridgehead and military base on the continent, "secure behind the Pyreness." Many military men disagree. Air and naval installations on the Iberian Peninsula would be under constant short-range bombing attack and exceptionally tough to supply; the Pyrenees are a poor barrier against airborne invasion, and nowhere near as impregnable as the Spanish like to think. Spain is fundamentally an unattractive place from which to flight a European war. There is no military justification for supporting Franco...
...latest victims in a traffic that has made the southeastern U.S., and Florida in particular, the center of the U.S.'s newest and busiest smuggling operation. Since 1939, more than 150,000 of Europe's homeless refugees have poured into Cuba, nursing hopes of hurdling the narrow barrier between them and the land of opportunity. More than 4,000 were turned back last year, as they tried to enter the U.S. illegally through the ports and coastline of Florida, Georgia and South Carolina. For smugglers, they had proved a treasure trove of desperation...
Last month the Yugoslavs began putting up a barbed-wire barrier along the border, across which men, arms and supplies had once freely flowed. If Markos was right-that the Albanian and Bulgarian backstops were not enough for Communist victory in Greece-then the tide of battle, which lately has gone against Athens, may soon turn the other...
When the scarlet-coated ringmaster blew his horn, a Mexican was first to try the tricky H-course. His horse seemed to glide over the first barrier (gate & towers), then the hedge and the cannon (a wooden cannon, 3 ft. 9 in. high). The rider was completely relaxed. The French got off to a humiliating start-their first horse refused to take the first jump-and looked tense and hesitant in the saddle. The Canadians made no bones about the fact that they were trying to copy the fluid riding style of the Mexicans. By week...