Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...find jobs elsewhere, ten out of every 100 of West Germany's coal miners have left their underground jobs in the past six months. Result: a sharp cutback in coal production. One group of German steel mills was again forced to buy expensive U.S. coal to keep its busy blast furnaces going...
Next day the Prime Minister arrived at the field training headquarters of the 3rd British Infantry Division. Eden, who won the Military Cross for gallantry in World War I, clambered in and out of armored vehicles, crawled into underground field defenses built to withstand the blast and radiation of atomic bombs dropped 500 yards away. "Pretty ancient aren't they, sir?" said a youthful sergeant when the Prime Minister inspected his living quarters. "They're awful," said Eden. "Accommodations must be improved...
...that speed, the sled's metal wind screen will be blown clear, and air blast will wallop Stapp with the same destructive force that would hit a pilot bailing out at 40,000 ft. and 2,000 m.p.h...
...from a large majority of crackups. He has presented his proof with argument-killing logic: his own roaring rides. Having established the practical limits of human tolerance to g forces,† he is getting ready to prove his carefully calculated theory that a jet pilot can stand the wind blast of a bail-out at Mach 3 at 40,000 ft. (about 2,000 m.p.h.), provided he is properly helmeted and harnessed tightly to an ejection seat...
...buckled over his lap; shoulder straps are snapped to the safety belt and then to the seat to hold him in place when the water brakes grab. His elbows are cinched close to his sides by a strap running across his back. At 400 m.p.h. and over, wind blast can start a man's limbs flailing uncontrollably with bone-snapping force...