Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What General Castaneda still did not have were the weapons of the rest of Luis Taruc's men (to be registered, not surrendered), nor the men themselves. They were standing by in the swamps of Central Luzon to see whether the government would go ahead with the land redistribution the Huks demanded. In his maiden speech before Congress (where he at last assumed the seat that he had won in 1946), Taruc revealed that Appomattox was not exactly what he had in mind. Said he: "I did not come to surrender, but to cooperate . . . The word 'surrender...
...secret-projects is adapting atomic energy to aircraft. Since atomic fuel (plutonium or uranium 235) would have over two million times as much energy as gasoline, a "nuclear-powered" plane could fly on & on, round & round the earth. It could fly at its top speed all the time, and land with the same weight (and about the same amount of reserve fuel) that it took off with...
...acre, the marginal fields were yielding 16 and up. In the good fields, one farm produced 52 bushels an acre, another 75. Fearing that no one would believe him, Harry Corbet of Alfalfa County got the State Board of Agriculture to certify that his four acres of bottom land had yielded a whopping 83 bushels an acre. With 80% of the crop cut, Oklahomans joyfully boosted their estimates to 88 million bushels, hoped to do even better...
Guilty. In New York courts last week, two skimmers of the land's fat got the bill. Grey Marketeer and Lawyer Isadore Ginsberg (TIME, Jan. 26) was convicted of grand larceny (for accepting $1,575 for a carload of rock lath that he never delivered). Gus Fusaro, $50-a-week financial district elevator man who played the market for his friends and lost $250,000 of their money, was convicted of grand larceny and operating a bucket shop...
...Mysterious land which made news this winter when its Imam (ruler) was murdered...