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...many ways, Spain's long, indented Mediterranean shoreline is ideal. But Sixth Fleet staff officers ruefully noted last week that not one of Spain's east coast ports has a deep enough channel to float the carrier FDR; Spanish cranes are too small, and drydocks, fuel tanks and warehouses are hopelessly inadequate to service U.S. capital ships. If Spain is to become a U.S. naval base, it will cost many pesetas...
...travelers will face a new difficulty, never before experienced by human beings. The earth's gravitational field still pulls at a space ship, but as soon as the craft is no longer supported by the air, its occupants feel no gravitation. They become weightless. In the comics they float around merrily, enjoying their new freedom, but in sober fact they will probably behave like stumbling idiots. The human body's sense-organs that control balance and muscular action need gravity to guide them. The crewmen of space ships will need a lot of training before they can make...
Despite Kahn, the southward migration of New England's textile industry continued. Monroe County, Miss, prepared to float a $2,600,000 bond issue to supply Rhode Island's Textron, Inc. with a plant-all part of Mississippi's well-organized program to "balance agriculture with industry." Since this program got under way in 1938, Mississippi has lured nearly 70 new plants (mostly textiles) to the state. Result: state employment has jumped by 15,000, payrolls by $35 million. Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama have similar programs...
...floor stood a "float": a block of stone with a handle on it, that was used to smooth stonework or stucco. Archaeologist Lehmann likes to think that the float was in use when Emperor Theodosius' edict (and probably the Emperor's soldiers) arrived in the sacred valley, and that it has remained there ever since the day the Great Gods died...
...survive their first hazards, they will have plenty of other things to worry about. Fog would envelop the cabin after the slightest perspiration on the part of the passengers. Their hair would stand on end, their clothes would balloon away from their bodies, and anything not nailed down would float aimlessly about the ship's interior. The space ship and its passengers would be bombarded by dangerous solar X rays and cosmic rays, would run the risk of colliding with meteorites plunging across the interplanetary course...