Word: cubic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Market town of Zentsuji with 25,000 inhabitants near by. Camp covers six acres surrounded by barbed wire and a wooden fence. Two Army barracks, two stories high, well ventilated, 12,000 cubic meters in all. Capacity 500; present number 374. One Englishman from Shanghai, two Dutchmen, five Australians and rest Americans, of whom eight are from Gilbert Islands, 20 from Wake and the rest from Guam. Forty-five officers, ten doctors, two druggists, one dentist...
...From Hawaii came a rush order for badly needed Army materiel, to occupy 400 cubic feet of space. Only ship leaving San Francisco was a Navy vessel. The Army begged the Navy for space, was turned down. Officials investigated, discovered that one hold in the Navy ship carried only peanuts, candy, soft drinks, cigarets. The Navy said the shipment was needed to bolster Navy morale. The ship sailed without the Army's order...
...blimps of the new squadron are about three times as large as the familiar advertising type. They are 250 ft. long, inflated with 416,000 cubic feet of helium, can cruise 1,500 miles at a speed of 55 m.p.h. As a submarine pursuer the blimp has many an advantage over the plane. It can hover motionless over its prey, move along with it constantly whatever its speed, fly below ceiling in all but the foulest weather...
...Captain Rosendahl and his followers will not be content with blimps. They are after giant 10,000,000-cubic-feet dirigibles (half again as large as the Hindenburg], airships that will cruise at 85 knots, serve as the battleships and plane carriers...
...mathematics but with the way it is taught. Most math teachers emphasize computation to the point of drudgery. A prime example (from an old U.S. arithmetic textbook - Greenleaf 's) : "Required the contents of the earth, supposing its circumference to be 25,000 miles. Ans. 263,858,149,120.06886875 cubic miles...