Word: cabin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fast is the P-80 that nothing that flies (including the tailless Messerschmitt 163 rocket interceptor) "can match its speed of "considerably more than 600 m.p.h." Its ceiling is well above the 40,000 feet at which propeller-driven planes can operate with efficiency, and it has a pressurized cabin...
...Saud was a kingly guest. As the destroyer coursed northward through the livid heat of the Red Sea, he sat in his tent, scorning a cabin (and wisely avoiding the ship's low overhead). Mustachioed desert warriors, armed with daggers and clad in brilliant abbayat, roamed the deck. Arab servants squatted in every corner, butchered sheep and cooked them on glowing charcoal braziers. The destroyer's commander had declined the King's offer of enough live mutton for the whole ship's company. But the King had plenty for himself, his party, and for a banquet...
...pool. It worked. Further tests showed that with such a mask a man could breathe for 6 minutes at 10 ft. under water, for 3½ minutes at 50 ft. Normally this should give a man, unless he is too badly injured, time to break out of a plane cabin or turret...
...snow was 3 to 5 ft. deep, and the drifts were deeper. Even on snowshoes, it was an arduous climb. But the three provost officers (military policemen) found what they wanted-a cabin, well up on Mt. McKay, overlooking Lake Superior, some 16 miles southwest of Fort William, Ont. The cabin, screened by a stand of pine and spruce, was obviously new, built of rough-hewn logs. Sergeant Ronald "Slim" Harrison approached cautiously, threw open the door...
Later the same night the sergeant followed footprints in the snow for four miles (it took three hours) to another isolated cabin, found two more deserters. A few days later a fifth was caught in a hideout north of Fort William. Four of the five were Canadians of Central European descent...