Word: barriers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There shall be no barrier between a qualified individual and the attainment of the education best suited to his aptitudes...
...midnight last week, while cameras snapped and ground, French frontier guards lifted the striped barrier across the Bidassoa River bridge at Hendaye. At 8:20 next morning, the de luxe Pyrenées-Côte d'Argent Express pulled into Hendaye station. And there the glistening blue cars sat for four hours, caught in a snarl of bureaucratic red tape. Paris had forgotten to order the Hendaye station master to let the train through, and he liked to have his orders. Sixty of the passengers, members of Milan's La Scala Opera, volubly wondered if they would...
...confirmed these essential facts, The XS-1, a small, thin-winged, rocket-propelled airplane, built by Buffalo's Bell Aircraft Corp., had been flown through the barrier several times in recent weeks at the closely guarded test center at Muroc, Calif. The chief test pilot was 24-year-old Air Force Captain Charles Yaeger, World War II fighter pilot. The other pilots were Howard Lilly and Herbert Hoover, civilian flyers of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. The airmen had experienced almost none of the difficulties predicted by scientists to be lying in the transonic area in which other...
...only known barrier to speed in the air has been pierced. This week the U.S. Air Force was ready to announce that a piloted airplane had broken through the transonic danger zone and that three Americans had flown faster than the speed of sound (760 m.p.h. at sea level), faster than any men had ever flown before...
...with China, and a familiar warlord's defense. Japan's actions, said Tojo, were motivated chiefly by the threat of Chinese Communism. "This was all done with a view to saving East Asia from the danger of bolshevization and at the same time to make herself a barrier against world bolshevization. The present condition of the world two years after the end of World War II eloquently tells how important these barriers were...