Word: landing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...French are doing well in both respects. Last year, the Communists controlled virtually the entire country except the major cities. Since then they have lost the key rural areas, including the Red River delta and Mekong River delta, where 90% of IndoChina's rice is grown. In a land that is five-sixths jungle, Ho and his forces can still strike almost anywhere. But while last year the Communists levied $30 million worth of money and rice from farmers taking their crops to town, government forces now guard the roads so well that the Reds' toll is almost...
...million of its people) is the Union of Viet Nam, composed of the old colonial provinces of Cochin-China, Annam and Tonkin, and run by an autonomous federal government. To continue as French protectorates with semi-autonomous status are the remaining two provinces: Laos, the land with the three-headed elephant in its flag (TIME, Aug. 1) and Cambodia, ruled by young (26) King Norodom Sihanouk...
Commander Carl I. Aslakson of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey recently noted that a long series of land measurements made by shoran (a kind of radar) had gone wrong. Each measurement went wrong by the same small percentage. The measurers checked their instruments, checked their procedures. Everything was shipshape. The only thing left to account for the errors was the speed of light itself. With a guilty feeling and bated breaths, they shaded the sacred figure a tiny bit and made the measurements again. Everything came out exactly right...
...rocket's flow of fuel. This is usually enough to bring it down in a safe area. For really bad cases of rocket misbehavior, there is stronger medicine: he sends up a different signal and blows off the rocket's nose, which may force it to land near by at low velocity...
...Boston Post's Morris Fineberg had covered World War I, many a fire, train wreck and disaster. Last week the city desk sent 56-year-old Photographer Fineberg out on a routine job, a mock invasion of South Boston by the U.S. Marines. As he watched them land on a beach, Moe Fineberg told a friendly Globe rival, "That ought to make a good picture." Seconds later, when a projectile exploded in a nearby mortar, a flying chunk of metal hit Photographer Fineberg in the head and killed...