Word: hr
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Penn Central announced that its electric-powered Metroliner will go into service between New York and Washington on Jan. 16, cutting the trip from 3 hr. 35 min. to 2 hr. 59 min. Soon after, a second high-speed train, the gas-turbine TurboTrain will begin plying the New Haven line's rails between Boston and New York, lopping a full hour off the 4-hr. 15-min. trip...
...subcommittee found that mechanics "beat the book" up to 75% of the time. One flat-rate manual, for example, puts the time for replacing rear springs on a 1965 Chevy II at 2 hr. 36 min., though the work often takes less than 2 hr. Some mechanics, of course, are skillful enough to finish the job that fast. Others beat the book only by doing the work sloppily...
...module-all that will remain of the 3,100-ton vehicle that left Cape Kennedy-will glide downward along a curving 1,300-mile path, deploy its main parachutes at 10,000 ft., and drop gently into the Pacific. Elapsed time for the great lunar adventure: six days, 2 hr...
Near the moon, the spacecraft will be braked enough to be pulled into a 60-mile-high lunar orbit. It will make ten 2-hr. circuits while the astronauts shoot movie and still pictures of the lunar surface below. Then Apollo 8 will return to earth, using re-entry techniques tested last April during the unmanned flight of Apollo...
...right through the booby traps." Mean sentry dogs who attack anyone but their handlers guard key U.S. installations. Tracker dogs, Labrador retrievers trained in Malaysia, are used to sniff out enemy withdrawal routes. After one recent ambush in III Corps, a tracker led a U.S. unit on a 51-hr. chase that ended at an abandoned rub ber plantation. Sure enough, the Communists were hiding there, and the Americans killed 70 of them...