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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Canal Winchester Methodist Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...Canal Winchester, Ohio

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 15, 1958 | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Jimmy Thach lived airplanes. He was an ace test pilot, flew patrol duty in the Aleutians in Martin PBM-15 ("The bearskin flying suits stank like hell"), catapulted off a turret top of the cruiser U.S.S. Cincinnati in SOC-15, patrolled the Canal Zone in PBYs. Stationed in San Diego in the 19305, Thach met and married Madalyn Jones (they have two sons, John Jr., an experimental psychologist, and William Leland, about to enter William and Mary), became gunnery officer of Fighting Squadron 3. He set up mock dogfights, gave new pilots the advantage of altitude and invited them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Goblin Killers | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...stretches nearly three-fourths of a mile across the mighty Volga River. Behind it lies an artificial reservoir 1½ times the size of Great Salt Lake. In its construction, 6.5 billion cu. ft. of earth was excavated-more than was dug out in the building of the Panama Canal. The huge, pale grey power station housing the 20 turbines is 2,000 ft. long, 200 ft. high -twice as large in volume as the gingerbread skyscraper of Moscow University, the tallest building in Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Man in a Hurry | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

...Nuclear blasting. Engineers have long considered a connecting tunnel or canal between the Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. The water would drop 1,800 ft. below sea level from the Mediterranean, creating tremendous hydroelectric power, and the Dead Sea would obligingly evaporate it to keep the current running. While the U.S. is not yet formally prepared to furnish nuclear explosives, the Atomic Energy Commission has already tested them in an underground blast, might well lend help and supplies if asked. ¶ Desalting water. The U.S. Department of the Interior, eying a 597 billion-gal, daily consumption...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Water Divining | 8/25/1958 | See Source »

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