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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This time Tunner would rely mainly on one aircraft, the 270-m.p.h.. propeller-driven C-124, which can carry 25 tons. He would pass up some of the Air Force's faster, bigger, new turboprops on the theory that their higher speed would only complicate the job of maintaining a steady traffic flow on the short run. A steady flow in '48 was complicated by the mixture of C-475, C-545 and C-825, planes with varying speeds...
...olive orchards of Greece or even the Acropolis!'' To accomplish his task, he boasted at another party (the welcome down celebration for Soviet Cosmonaut Major Gherman Titov) that Russian scientists now knew how to make an H-bomb equal to 100 million tons of TNT, seven times bigger than any U.S. nuclear device ever exploded...
...Princeton University: the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, which has a graduate student body of only 30. It was probably the biggest anonymous gift in the history of U.S. higher education. It was certainly the biggest gift in Princeton's 215-year history, and bigger than the total endowments of all but some 30 U.S. colleges...
...bedtime the little darlings, like many well-trained Disney animals, exchange a nutter of ever-so-cute kisses that will probably make every little girl say ah and every little boy say ugh. Fortunately for the little boys, the cord is soon cut, and the pup runs off to bigger and bloodier adventures involving a vicious wolverine, a great big nasty old grizzly bear, a number of extraordinarily large and healthy timber wolves who have obviously had their teeth shined up by the studio dentist, and a peculiar vertical animal called Man. As described by Naturalist Disney, Man falls into...
Thanks to Russell's ceaseless questioning and streamlining-a process known to Southern Pacific hands as "Russellization" -his railroad now handles a bigger load than it did a decade ago with little more than half the work force it then had. Fort night ago, the railroad telegraphers' union indignantly complained to a presidential mediation board that Russell had shut down 149 stations in the last six years, closing and consolidating facilities that other U.S. railroads would have kept open much longer...