Word: mi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...other words," said Cole, "an area covering 300 square miles would be blanketed by this hydrogen explosion." The area of Greater New York City is slightly bigger (319.1 sq. mi.), but Cole hinted strongly that hydrogen bombs have grown much better since 1952, and that still more improvement is in prospect. "The 1952 tests," he said, "did not mark the end of the line in hydrogen research. Terrible secrets still lie undiscovered in the fusion of nuclei. In due course, we can be sure, the ingenuity of man will ferret out these secrets...
...Good for Tacho. Aside from that, Tacho clearly felt that almost everything was right with the world, and especially the 57,145 sq. mi. of it that is Nicaragua. Everyone there knows that what is good for Tacho is good for the country, and things at the moment are very good for Tacho. Since the U.S. Marines moved out and he took over, almost 20 years ago, he has created considerable wealth in his little (pop. 1,088,000) republic. Some of it has rubbed off on Nicaragua and deserving Nicaraguans. But plenty of it (reportedly as much...
Seated at an International Business Machines Corp. electronic computer last week, a girl who understands not a word of Russian punched out the message: Mi pyeryedayem mislyi posryedstvom ryech-yi. In a few seconds the mechanical "brain" spewed out a translation from Russian to English: "We transmit thoughts by means of speech...
Braving 20° weather, Harry and Bess Truman, along with daughter Margaret, who came home for the holidays, mustered slightly frozen smiles at a ceremony in Independence, Mo., where the former President snipped a 30-ft. red ribbon to open a new section of the 20-mi. Truman Road trafficway. Later, warming up to his subject at an indoor luncheon, Truman made a plea for safer driving, said he hoped the thoroughfare "will be used for traffic instead of a new scene for slaughter...
...which pay workers as little as 50? a day, make everything from floridly painted aluminum spittoons for African natives to ivory chessmen and bamboo furniture for American tourists. More than 400 companies with 80 million Hong Kong dollars capital are still waiting for sites within the small (391 sq. mi.) colony, and the government is working on a plan to create a new industrial zone to meet the demand...