Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...propellers. The twelve-horsepower engine coughed, spat and began to clatter. With Wilbur running alongside holding one wing, the plane teetered down its wooden launching rail and rose unsteadily into the air. For twelve seconds it lurched slowly forward like an uncertain box kite, dipping and bobbing a few feet above the ground, then settled back on to the cold sand...
Three more flights were made that day, the brothers taking turns at the controls. The longest was 59 seconds, for a distance of 852 feet. Then the wind picked up the plane, rolled it over and wrecked it. But the Wright brothers, bicycle mechanics of Dayton, had proved that man could conquer...
...National Economic Council Inc., declared last night before a predominantly unfriendly audience at Phillips Brooks House that the free enterprises system made it possible for the United States to aid Europe, but condemned the Marshall plan for rendering that aid "because it would put European Communism on its feet...
Last Word. Senator Ferguson asked Stassen if he wanted to reply. Stassen did. Leaping to his feet, he cried: "In his protestations of innocence, Pauley has confessed his guilt...
...Swiss Alps this week, on the slopes of the highest (6,000 feet) major valley in Europe, the snow lay five feet deep. It was dry and powdery on top, packed solid beneath, ideal for skiing. Above towered the two mountain giants, Languard and Julier, up to their waists in dark green firs. On a terrace, its streets white-carpeted with snow, lay the famed resort town of St. Moritz, a chockablock jumble of low, square houses and great, ugly, expensive hotels. Villagers, doing their day's marketing, dodged visiting skiers in the streets. Crowded little St. Moritz...