Word: feet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...southern section of the town was burning and all nearby villages were heaps of wrecked houses.Trenches webbed out from Nienchuang like some scabrous disease infecting the good earth. All around the village, crumpled parachutes from previous drops sprinkled the brown countryside. As the C46 captain dropped to 2,000 feet to release his ammunition, Communist guns in positions within a mile of Nienchuang opened up on the plane but fell short of the mark...
...farms, on up into Minnesota, out over the Great Lakes. It drove boats and ships aground. Unburdened of snow, the winds whipped along the border country and on east to the sea. In Buffalo, the gale tumbled a 75-ton coal crane from its tracks, sent it plunging 60 feet through a transformer building. At Painted Post, N.Y., in a final slap, the wind knocked over an iron statue of an Indian which had stood since...
Should we not return to those happy days when the death penalty was abolished in Belgium?† Is not the abolition of the death penalty a victory of humanity and civilization?" A Communist deputy jumped to his feet. "Don't interrupt me," exclaimed Spaak. "It's hard enough to see my way clearly as it is." When the Regent Prince Charles asked him to form a new government, Spaak resisted: "With the U.N., the chairman ship of O.E.E.C., Western military union and the direction of Belgium's Foreign Office, don't you think that...
John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, back on his feet ("I had the gout for two weeks after Harry Truman was here"), and spry on his 80th birthday, issued a prickly statement to persistent newsmen for the occasion: "I'm in favor of every man reaching his own conclusions and his own confusions . . . There have been too many statements by too many people...
...unmanned "sounding balloon" has risen to 140,000 feet (26½-miles), breaking the altitude record for any man-made object except rockets. So the U.S. Army Signal Corps announced last week. The balloon, released over Belmar, N.J. carried 2½ pounds of instruments which radioed data on atmospheric pressure, temperature, etc. The maximum altitude was deduced from the pressure signals; the balloon disappeared behind clouds at about 40,000 feet, was not seen again...