Word: iii
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Herpetologist William H. Woodin III of Tucson, Ariz, is devoted to one of the oddest of odd scientific occupations. Last week he was scurrying round the desert taking the temperatures of Gila monsters...
Where the crevasses Vere widest, the climbers built bridges with ropes and a portable ladder that stretched to 30 ft. Camp II was halfway, Camp III at the top. And after 45 days, they stood in the Western...
...week disclosed derails of the new plane. The first U.S. entry into the field of jet passenger liners, Boeing's 707 will be the world's fastest and most powerful transport, with a cruising speed of well over 500 m.p.h. v. about 500 m.p.h. for the Comet III, Britain's most advanced passenger jet. It will carry from 60 to 120 passengers, depending on airline requirements...
...scheduled for its first flight next summer, will be powered by four Pratt & Whitney J57 engines, rated at more than 10,000 Ibs. thrust v. 9,000 Ibs. thrust for Comet III engines. Payload of the new plane is put at 25,000 Ibs.. an increase of a third over the 18.750-lb. payload for Boeing's piston-engine Stratocruiser. The new jet transport will have wings swept back at the same angle as the B-47 and B-52 bombers. Cost of the new transport: an estimated...
...secret. It has stiff competition from Hearst's Motor Boating (circ. 51,599), which has more and more broadened its range to include sailboats. In 1938 Stone made sure that his magazine would always have solid backing by getting such famed yachtsmen as Pierre S. du Pont III, Henry S. Morgan, R. J. Reynolds and 17 others to join him in buying the magazine from John Clarke Kennedy (Forhan's Toothpaste), who ran it as a hobby. The present owners, said Stone, merely want "to see that it always remains a magazine for the sport." Publisher Stone feels...