Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...other seven Harvard entries, Jim Weaver and John Hart came in 21 and 22 on the slushy 11 mile course...
Stennis (Miss.) . . . I challenge anyone to show that the great mass of the people have ever been really injured by the operation of the great rule of unlimited debate . . . I submit that there is no more important mile anywhere than the rule under which the Senate so admirably operated for more than a hundred years. In fact, I think that in some ways it is even more important than the very terms of the Constitution itself in preserving the Republic . . . If this resolution is adopted, who will be the first on the list to feel its wrath! . . . It will...
...Goddard, U.S. father of rocketing, patented such a missile, but never succeeded in building one. During World War II, the Germans toyed with the idea. One of their antiaircraft rockets, the unsuccessful Rheintochter (Rhinemaiden), was pushed into the air by a booster that dropped off after rising a mile and a quarter. But no one shot a multi-stage rocket to really high altitudes...
Besides being eager to set this record, U.S. rocketeers may have had a more practical motive. The services are trying to get Congress to authorize a 3,000-mile guided-missile range (TIME, Feb. 28). They say that the White Sands range (150 miles long) is already much too small. This week's feat proved it. If the two-stage rocket had been fired at the proper angle for maximum range, instead of nearly straight up, the WAC Corporal would probably have landed something like 500 miles from the firing point...
...ranging from four rooms ($4,700) to six ($8,550) take ten days to build. They move on rollers out of a shed and along an assembly line. When completed, they are loaded onto a house mover's dolly and hauled to the building site (within a ten-mile radius). There the house is worked onto a concrete block foundation. The final plumbing and electrical connections can be made the same...