Word: exceedingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...double blow for Convair, which had hoped that its B60 would be picked as the long-range bomber. But the B-52 is considerably faster than the B-60. Powered by eight Pratt & Whitney J57 jet engines with some 80,000 h.p., the B-52 can far exceed 600 m.p.h., v. 435 m.p.h. for the B-36. In its 153-ft.-long fuselage, the swept-back-wing plane can carry 10,000 lbs. of bombs 10,000 miles, and drop them from altitudes of more than...
...when the American paddle-wheeler Pacific set a record for the Atlantic crossing, steamboats could barely exceed the time of a fast sailing vessel. The Pacific's time: 9 days 19 hr. 25 min. She was the last U.S. speed queen-since her day, the British, the Germans, the French and the Italians have held the Atlantic records. Last week, a century after the Pacific's run, the new superliner United States raced east into the Atlantic from New York...
...seemed almost a foregone conclusion that she would exceed the mark of 3 days 20 hr. 42 min. set in 1938 by the Cunard liner Queen Mary on the run between Ambrose Lightship and Bishop Rock on the southwest coast of England. But merely nibbling an hour or so off the record would mean little. Ships like the Lusitania and the old Mauretania had guaranteed a 4½day crossing in the early 1900s. The Normandie and the two British Queens had cut it to four days in the 1930s. If she was worth the toil, treasure and time...
...times more bituminous coal, four times more zinc, 26 times more natural gas, and 30 times more crude oil than it did in 1900. "There is scarcely a metal or a mineral fuel," says the report, "[whose use] since the outbreak of the first World War did not exceed the total used throughout the world in all the centuries preceding." The result is that though the U.S. has less than 10% of the free world's population and land area, it consumes close to half the free world's output of materials. Every man, woman & child...
With only today left for donations, P.B.H. blood drive officials said last night they expected totals would exceed 1660 pints for the week. Yesterday's donors contributed 352 pints, making a total of 1370 in the first five days of the drive...