Word: basins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Today they puts jazz into college and they writes books about what Pete used to play; and they 'civilize' the stuff, but they change it too- 'cause you can't feel the blues from reading no book. And you can't spell Bach with a small 'b' and make Basin St. from it. Not that it ain't music or ain't good-but it's different, and some don't know it. And they tell you what jazz is and what it ought to be and I start to thinking that maybe I gone crazy or had too much...
Tangent or Great Circle? To build a track straight and level enough for missiles was a technical tour de force. Air Force experts selected a section of the Tularosa Basin, near Holloman, that is almost as flat as a frozen lake. While figuring theoretically how to lay out the 35,080-ft. track, they considered making it perfectly straight both up-and-down and sideways, but gave this up because the curvature of the earth (the earth considered as a sphere with a 4,000-mile radius) would require either a cut in the ground 35 ft. deep...
...rails, which are 7 ft. apart and three times as heavy as railroad rails. They came in 3Q-ft. sections and were welded together on the spot into 10,000-ft. lengths. Merely fastening them to the concrete slab would not do; the temperature of the Tularosa Basin fluctuates between zero and 120°F. If the rails were fastened in cool weather, a hot summer day might make them expand and buckle out of line. So each 10,000-ft. length of massive rail was stretched 3 ft. by hydraulic jacks. At ordinary temperatures the rails are under tension...
...last week a sled carried a missile roaring along it at 3,000 ft. per second (2,000 m.p.h.), which is about the muzzle velocity of a high-power rifle bullet. The Air Force scientists expect much higher speeds. It is fortunate, they say, that the Tularosa Basin is not subject to earthquakes. Even a delicate motion of the earth might throw the track out of perfect alignment and wreck the next missile to be used...
...years of life it is now in the black and "for sale." < Labor's Daily of Bettendorf, Iowa, a money-losing, nationally distributed tabloid for union members, whose fate is to be decided this week by a special A.F.L.-C.I.O. committee in Washington. < The eight-year-old Columbia Basin News (circ. 11,409), published in Pasco, Wash. The News has been heavily subsidized (at least $500,000) by the I.T.U., is being sued by the crusading Tri-City Herald (14,275), which charges that the I.T.U.-backed News has conspired to force it out of business...