Word: guam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...visibility stretched for more than 200 miles - the planes streaked counterclockwise around the earth - eastward across the U.S., over Newfoundland, past North Africa, Saudi Arabia and Ceylon (giving the Soviet Union a wide berth), made a mock bomb-run off the Malay Peninsula, cut back over Manila, then Guam, headed across the wide reaches of the Pacific to California (see map). Below, in daylight hours, the world spun like a giant relief globe; sometimes at night the planes butted their way through air so charged and turbulent that static electricity (St. Elmo's fire) leaked off the wing tips...
...days," half light, half dark. They caught their first sunset over the Great Lakes, a few hours after their i p.m. takeoff, thereafter saw the sun rise and set at eight-hour intervals, i.e., sunrise over the Atlantic, sunset over Saudi Arabia, sunrise over Malaya, sunset over Guam, sunrise in California. Total: three sunrises, three sunsets in a period just a few hours short of two full normal-sized days...
...could come out of Rockefellers), promptly exploited the success in the South and sent out task forces against hookworm all over the world. New successes taught new methods of disease control, which the foundation flung into battle against yellow fever in Ecuador, scarlet fever in Rumania, dengue fever in Guam, malaria in Nicaragua. In Manhattan a Rockefeller scientist named Dr. Wilbur Sawyer developed the world's first effective anti-yellow-fever vaccine...
...three years in office, became one of the most successful U.S. trustbusters since the days of Teddy Roosevelt. Last week he was rewarded for his service: President Eisenhower named him judge for the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, covering seven Far West states (plus Alaska, Hawaii and Guam...
...Guam to Iceland. Smith, known variously as "O.P." and "The Professor," took a long time to get to his first battlefield-through no fault or desire of his own. He spent World War I in frustration and boredom on the island of Guam. On Dec. 7, 1941 he was in Iceland. It was not until the Cape Gloucester operation in March 1944 that Smith, by then a greying colonel, got his first taste of combat and a Bronze Star. In his second operation, bloody Peleliu, he won the Legion of Merit for the smooth landing of three Marine assault teams...