Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battalion of marines -nearly 1,000 men-was moved to a mountainous front-line sector by helicopter, in the largest operation of its kind to date. Twelve big Sikorskys made a total of 162 round trips, finishing the job, without a hitch or a casualty, in 6 hr. 15 min., almost an hour ahead of schedule. The landing point was within range of enemy mortar positions, but apparently the Reds could not see what was going on; no hostile fire was received...
...these high "standing waves" that are under suspicion. They often contain winds that blow either up or down at 4,000 ft. per min. A down-draught of such violence can smack down a high-flying airplane against a chunk of rock before the pilot realizes he is anywhere near a mountain. Sometimes his altimeter (which measures air pressure, not actual height) gives him no warning; the turbulent waves in the lee of high mountains often have spots of rarefied air that make the instrument read much higher than it should...
...first woman to swim the English Channel, in 1926. Since then, a dozen women have followed in her wake from France to Britain. Last year a 31-year-old stenographer from San Diego named Florence Chadwick topped the Ederle record by swimming the distance in 13 hr. 20 min. (TIME, Aug. 21, 1950). But until last week no woman, and only nine men, had ever swum the Channel eastward from Dover to Cap Gris-Nez, the 21-mile stretch which, like a cat, hates to be stroked the wrong...
...leaky gasoline line of an accompanying motorboat. Florence recovered as soon as the boat drew away. While her pilot boat almost lost her in the fog, Florence's father took one pill after another to ease the strain on his own weak heart. Finally, after 16 hr., 22 min., he got the best tonic of all (and a 69th birthday present): Florence felt the sand of France beneath her, dragged herself ashore at Sangatte, three miles south of Calais...
...miles from Fort Worth to Barksdale Field in Shreveport, La. Last week the Air Force announced that one of its RB-45s (North American's four-jet light bomber, which ordinarily has a top speed of about 550 m.p.h.) had covered the distance in a cool 13 min. 50 sec. Captain John J. Mackey had accidentally picked up a lift from the jet airstream, the high-velocity wind that zigzags unpredictably through the substratospheric sky (TIME, Oct. 16). His average speed for the flight: 886 m.p.h., a figure which the Air Force modestly admitted was probably a record...