Word: miles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week rain fell continuously on the Western Front. In the 20-mile sector north of the Swiss border which faces the rocky fortress of Istein-Germany's "Gibraltar of the Rhine"-sodden French infantrymen came in from patrol to report that across the swelling river the German troops were busy in the flats. To stop this activity-whatever it was-French engineers had an answer that cost no lives, no ammunition. They closed the gates that drain Rhine water into the Rhine-Rhone Canal, let the river flood the flats...
This week it came-a small push along a four-mile front, but the first attack in force the Germans have made. It came along the northern flank through the Moselle Valley-an offensive that an official French communique described as "an attack supported by artillery fire." French outposts were slowly driven back toward the Maginot Line. From the rear came reinforcements and a counterattack and at the end of the day the German infantry had been stopped, at least for the time. But they had pushed back about a mile and a quarter into...
Britain. Last week in the House of Commons Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood laboriously reviewed the war record of the Royal Air Force to date: it flew 1,000,000 miles of reconnaissance and patrol, escorted 100 convoys, sighted submarines on 72 occasions, attacked 34 times, made 1,000-mile flights at high altitudes. In cold figures such as Sir Kingsley cited, the R. A. F. last week had about 6,000 trained pilots, about 3,000 first-line planes. But it had, as well, spirit, ingenuity, determination, and a new plan...
...Mexico desert. In his early experiments taciturn Dr. Goddard used ordinary gunpowder for fuel, has since switched to liquid fuels, such as a mixture of oxygen and gasoline, or oxygen and hydrogen-tricky to handle but highly efficient. He has sent rockets up vertically to heights of a mile and a half. His chief interest in rockets: as a possible means of carrying scientific instruments up higher than stratosphere balloons can take them. But experimenters abroad, especially in Germany and Russia, are reported to be busily developing rockets...
Last week Jack Frye, worried about his growing waistline, announced a deal that will fatten his airline: the purchase for $350,000 of Marquette Airlines which (when Civil Aeronautics Authority approves) will give TWA a closely knit 565-mile feeder system in the heart of rich midwest traffic territory...