Word: bases
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sticky midsummer heat at Washington's Boiling Air Force Base last week, 3,000 Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps servicemen, high civilian brass and Congressmen turned out for a unique demonstration of interservice unity. They were there to salute two four-star Air Force generals who, in distinguished careers in World War II and the cold war, had come to symbolize that interservice unity. The generals: Otto P. Weyland, 57, boss of Tactical Air Command, and Earle Everard Partridge, 59, head of North American Air Defense Command-both at the point of retirement...
Almost half the jump was caused by the addition of electric and gas utilities' production to the index base. The rest of the change was due to improvements in measuring industries already included in the index. Under the revised index, industrial output of consumer goods has risen at an annual rate of 3.8% during the past decade, v. a 3.2% rise shown by the unrevised index. The U.S. population has grown at the rate of 1.7% per year...
...typical northern base, it takes 20 tons of material a year to supply one airman or soldier and a little less for a civilian-up to 75% of it fuel. As the population of the North grows, the supply problem increases apace. The scientists may soon beat the problem with a nuclear reactor to provide heat and power for a year on one fueling. The first small portable reactor, now being built by Alco Products, Inc. at Dunkirk, N.Y. for the U.S. Army, is scheduled for installation in the Arctic next year. When it works, the Arctic frontier will indeed...
...bird lovers waited, the first report came on April 18: the male was back; three days later, the female followed. The ornithologists were ready. In a campaign that rivals the efforts to protect North America's whooping crane, Waterston and his aides strung barbed wire around the base of the tree, planted the vicinity with booby traps, built an observation post with a covered approach. Relays of guards kept 24-hour watch, helped at night by a parabolic microphone so sensitive that they could hear the female panting on the nest-or any sly oölogist footsteps...
...Dodgers have men to match. Towering (6 ft. 6 in.. 205 Ibs.) Don Drysdale (13-6) is the ace of a slick young pitching staff, and Third Baseman Jim Gilliam (.318) always seems to be on base. But the biggest man of all in the Dodger infield is that old pro-and beloved Brook-lynite-First Baseman Gil Hodges, 35, who can still field like a vacuum cleaner and at .293 put the ball game away with his bat. Last week in the first game against the Giants, he slammed a two-run homer; in the second, he slapped...