Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...land at Gatwick Airport, 25 miles south of London. At 4:50 p.m., with dusk closing in and visibility at only one mile, a Turkish Airlines Viscount reported that it was on Gatwick Airport's standard instrument landing system, and coming in. It was coming in too low...
...Persian Gulf, Lancashire and the Levant, and known as the richest British subject in Egypt. This was his acquisition of 700 swampy acres on Alexandria's outskirts. He got Farouk's father, Fuad I, to proclaim it "Smouha City" and, while holding about half as low-tax "farm land" for future speculative profit, turned the other half into villas and a luxurious sports club and race track to provide him the pleasures-denied him by his origins -of the stuffy Alexandria Sporting Club
...earth satellites due to varying atmospheric density, over a period from April to December, 1958. The third graph is the intensity of solar radiation during the same period, and shows how peaks and troughs occur together on the three lines. The lower plot measures the angular position of the low point of the orbit and indicates a general trend...
...unlike the IBRD, would operate on a local currency basis--a loan to India, for example, might consist of francs for French concrete, guilders for Dutch engineers, and rupees for the local labor. India would repay, at low interest over a long period, in rupees, which in turn would later be used by the Authority to purchase Indian goods and services, thus providing a double boost to India's economy...
...uses very high frequency radio waves, which are seldom bothered by static from thunderstorms. Disadvantage is that high frequency waves are line-of-sight (like those used for TV), and therefore stop at the horizon. Airplanes flying above 20,000 ft. can detect them 200 miles away. But for low-flying airplanes and helicopters, their range may be only a few miles, hence the need for many stations in a VOR/DMET system...