Word: mile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Teaming up with the Weather Bureau, the Air Force has given scientific rainmaking a full-dress tryout. It set aside an 8-by-20-mile area near Wilmington, Ohio, and dotted it with ground observation stations. Powerful radar sets kept watch on the air above. When promising clouds appeared, an RB-17 Flying Fortress, loaded with dry-ice pellets, took off from Clinton County Air Force Base; an RF-61 Black Widow photographed the operation...
...charges customers-which include Chambers of Commerce as well as big stores-according to the size of parade they want. For example, a 45-minute parade a mile long with 50 balloons runs around $4,500. Out of what he calls "this crazy business," Gros will gross around $200,000 this year, but, like most showmen, he refuses even to guess his net. Said he: "It's like a Broadway play. You run for months just to break even and count on those last two weeks for your profit...
...mile relay foursome happily presents no such problem. The starters will probably be George Williams, Jim Downey, Joe Rosen, and Dick Welch, Mikkola said...
...addition to filling Ruby's position, Coach Mikkola must find a fourth man for the mile quartet. Captain Dave Hamblett and Harvey Thayer, two outstanding holdovers from last year, however, are almost certain of starting. The other two will probably be Dave Gilbert and Chuck Harwood...
Eight finalists will emerge Saturday afternoon from the first track time-trials of the winter season. These runners will make up the Crimson's one-mile and two-mile relay teams that compete against Rhode Island and Brown in an informal relay meet here December...