Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...completed as a platform for launching guided missiles. At a demonstration on the West Coast last fortnight the Army & Navy showed off some new aircraft:* the rocket-propelled Bell XS-1 (TIME, Dec. 23), designed to reach a supersonic 1,000 m.p.h.; the Navy's carrier-based XFJ-1 jet fighter; Consolidated Vultee's gigantic six-motored B-36, the "Flying Cigar," which can carry a 10,000-lb. bomb load 5,000 miles and return to base; Consolidated's needle-slim XB-46, the Northrop XB-35 Flying Wing, now being adapted to jet propulsion...
...biggest boom is in military construction. Across Bering Strait, Russia, from which the U.S. bought Alaska for $7,200,000 in 1867, is only 52 miles away. Arctic and Pacific defense looms large in U.S. military thinking, and Alaska looms large in both. As Alaska-based B-29s, with lipstick-red wings and tails (easily seen in case of forced landings on the polar icecap), fly routine missions over the North Pole, the Army & Navy are pumping men and millions of dollars into the Territory. At Mile 26 on the Richardson Highway near Fairbanks, the Army is rushing construction...
...this epistle. The intentional pass is an example of the great American conscience which us intellectuals are so concerned about. That is obvious as all hell. How can love and temperance come back when men don't have to fight for what they get from providence, be it a base on balls or a woman or a colony. This thing has wide applications, which I want you to investigate. See what you can do for our mothers and wives, and for the little ones who may grow up to be even greater than our wonderful sluggers. Wipe the pitcher...
...Vienna's most magnificent squares-the Heldenplatz (Square of Heroes), with its huge statues-is now the front yard of the Russian headquarters. Russian soldiers perch like drab birds on the base of Prinz Eugen's statue and little Russian boys in dark blue school uniforms fire slingshots at passersby. When Vienna's bluish-green dusk settles over the square and forms a backdrop for the lighted clock in the Rathaus tower, and the lilac smells especially sweet, a few moments of real peace descend. Then the Russians turn on their loudspeakers, which blare hit tunes...
...Marine Corps reserve captain and one of the foremost U.S. small-arms experts, holds that anyone can learn to shoot with his toy as efficiently as with an ordinary rifle. The Marine Corps and the British Government are considering them for possible use in training. One Marine Corps base has already ordered some to sell in its post exchange. In his small two-story, ivy-covered plant at Cranston, R.I., Johnson has already turned out 10,000 rifles for sale in toy and gun stores. Retail price: $15. With the target rifle he hopes that his company, which has been...