Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bell found less comfort when he headed for the line where the worst trouble could begin - the Russo-Iranian frontier between the Caspian Sea and Mt. Ararat. Nervous officers showed him their defense preparations and tried to keep him hidden from watchful Russian binoculars across the line. In the whole area he found panic-ridden faces, men afraid to talk for fear of the police or of ever-present Communist agents...
Combat training in thickly populated, highly cultivated Germany is not as simple as in the vast forest and desert areas of the U.S. Fighter bombers must fly across the Mediterranean to Tripoli for target practice. The Army's biggest antiaircraft guns must be transported up to the Danish frontier in the British zone for firing. The 4th will not find any area in Germany large enough for its divisional maneuvers. One of the emerging facts of military history is that Hitler's generals managed to train more than 100 divisions of his Wehrmacht without being able to maneuver...
...Richard G. Folsom of the University of California described a quieter and trickier tunnel. Built with Navy and Air Force funds, it is a stainless steel tube only 5 ft. long and 18 in. in diameter. Its purpose: to simulate aerodynamic conditions near the earth's outer frontier-the atmosphere 50 miles...
...When the temperature in the source chamber is 1,000° C., the molecules in the beam speed at 1,800 m.p.h. Models of aerodynamic surfaces placed in this beam behave just as if they were moving at 1,800 m.p.h. through the ping-pong-ball atmosphere on the frontier of space...
Thus, Communist China extended its power over 3,500,000 people in a region twice as large as France, got a foothold for military bases-such as they may be-within reach of India's northern frontier...