Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...newsmen, broke up after an hour-long discussion. In the Capitol, Connecticut's Senator Brien McMahon sat down with his Joint Committee on Atomic Energy and AEC officials behind drawn shades. Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg was asked what he thought of the news. "It's the kind of thing you can't think about on a straight line until you've put it aside for 48 hours," he replied...
...some immediate and obvious revisions to make. The Air Force, which had been budgeted at 48 groups, had a powerful new reason for going onto a 70-group schedule as soon as Congress provided the money. The Air Force, heavily accenting bomber construction, would also have to emphasize another kind of plan: it would need more interceptors than it has contracted for. It would also have to speed work on construction of a 24-hour radar net across the Arctic frontier from Alaska to Greenland...
...such proportions was a spectacular job of engineering. Fifty thousand tons of steel rest on 50,000 cubic yards of concrete. The mammoth concrete piers on which the main truss rests go down some 83 feet below the water line--making these huge abutments the largest of their kind in the country. Dozens of homes were transported intact away from the 60 foot strip that the bridge's approaches carve through Chelsea and Charlestown. In many respects the engineering was equally as remarkable as in the construction of the John Hancock building. And for all the danger that operating...
Ernie Ransome, a quiet-spoken and well-informed young man, spoke briefly and to the point concerning Princeton football. He put it off the record, but it was good-for the Princeton men in the house. He also had kind words for Columbia, which scrimmaged the Tigers almost to a draw last month...
...When Ory breaks in to ask "How you feeling, Mr. Wilson?", the latter replies with a two-chorus solo that is all the answer required. If you're sick of singing saxophones, try these for a chaser. At present, only Briggs and Briggs and the College Music Shop are kind enough to stock them; but even the people that sell television sets instead of music might try them if they heard them. They'd feel as good as Mr. Wilson...