Word: canberras
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...navy minister who ordered the subs stood to collect a $300,000 "commission." The latest scandal brewing is in Cuba, where Fidel Castro agreed to pay $150 each for 24,000 Belgian automatic rifles worth $75 each. The fancy equipment is often short-lived. Days after Ecuador got three Canberra turbojet bombers, a mechanic cracked up two of them taxiing on the landing strip...
...Punjab. The Indian army officer sometimes appears to be the very, very model of the British tradition: he has probably attended Sandhurst, speaks with an Oxford accent, plays polo and cricket, wears a mustache and carries a swagger stick. The first-rate Indian air force uses British twin-jet Canberra bombers and French Mystere jet fighters -all obtained by purchase, since Nehru believes that military aid would compromise India's traditional neutrality...
Gathering in Canberra last week to celebrate their tenth year in office, the leaders of Australia's Liberal Party looked upon their nation's economic progress with warm and prideful eye. Said Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies: "The whole face of the land is being changed. No other country of comparable size or population in the world is so busy building its future." On the same day, a crowd of 1,400 in Sydney watched the opening of a $3,300,000 plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles...
...program that has spent $1.2 billion to standardize the nation's chaotic five-gauge railroad system, build new airports, roads, telephone and telegraph lines, and heavy utilities needed as a foundation for industry. The government's giant $1 billion hydroelectric project in the Snowy Mountains south of Canberra is already producing power, will ultimately generate 3,000,000 kw. and provide 1,800,000 acre feet of irrigation water for the states of Victoria and New South Wales...
Soon after Galveston was commissioned last year, it became clear that her electronic batteries confronted crewmen with new hazards that had not shown up in earlier missile cruisers (Boston and Canberra) with lower-powered transmitters. Also, the danger of intense microwaves (TIME, April 6) had not been plotted in detail. From animal experiments and sketchy data on humans, the Navy medics set a level of 10 milliwatts per square centimeter of body surface as conservatively safe for personnel aboard missile ships. Dr. Johnson's findings on Galveston proved that this level was sometimes exceeded...