Word: gales
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...mountains surrounding Frenchman's Flat, the newsmen barred from the proving grounds (see PRESS) watched a 60-m.p.h. gale drive the atomic cloud toward Las Vegas. The AEC said that the cloud traveled at 40,000 ft., but on Charleston Peak a reporter at the 8,000-ft. level said the cloud passed directly over him about 1,000 ft. up. His shoes showed 10 milliroentgens of radiation, his car over 20 milliroentgens (50 to 100 roentgens are dangerous...
Through this campus gale last week the smiling admiral ("It's 'mister' now-since 9 o'clock this morning") seemed to be setting a confident course. Just why the board had chosen him, no one on campus quite knew, though some suspected that it was "a move of vengeance" directed against the faculty's recent attempt to take over the college athletic policy (TIME...
Here Comes the Groom (Paramount) puts Bing Crosby and Producer-Director Frank Capra up to their oldest tricks and ought to amuse all but those optimistic moviegoers who dare to hope for new ones. Crosby, carrying his breeziness this time to gale proportions, plays a newspaperman home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony...
...m.p.h. winds. Tourists were huddled indoors behind boarded-up windows. Natives, expecting the worst, had battened down all hatches. Then "Easy" swerved sharply toward the east, its center missing Bermuda by 80 miles. At the same time, the force of its winds diminished. Bermuda got only a mild gale that blew down a few banana trees...
...struggle with the President," Paul Douglas said uneasily. "But in this matter, God helping me, I can do no other." In this solemn fashion, Illinois' Fair Dealing Senator served notice last week that he would take his fight with Harry Truman to the Senate floor. A half gale was building up into a hurricane...