Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...great birds (wingspan: about 7 ft.) go through such distressingly gooney antics that Navymen long ago dubbed them gooney birds. Among other things, they need large, clear areas to take off and land, and they find airports ideal. The friendly gooney birds lay their big eggs on or near the runways, rise in clouds as if to welcome planes on landing or to see them off on takeoffs. Often they fly smack into an airborne craft. They have dived into propellers, smashed against expensive radomes, causing about $300,000 damage a year. Far worse is the ever-present danger that...
...Navy has tried to shoo the gooneys away. Sailormen have attempted to drive them out by burning old tires, scare them put by dropping flares on them and shooting off rifles, bazookas and mortars near them. When the gooneys stoically ignored it all, the Navy people called upon the scientists. The scientists tried filching the gooneys' eggs. The birds wailed like banshees at the egg snatchers, then promptly laid some more. In desperation, the Navy packed some gooneys into planes, hauled them to far-off Guam, to Kwajalein, to northern Japan, even to Puget Sound-4,000 miles away...
...peninsula jutting from the rocky northern coast near Cutler, Me., the Navy is building a $63 million transmitter complex that, by any measure, will rank as the world's biggest. Rising 980 ft., its two main antenna masts are almost as tall as the Eiffel Tower (984 ft.). With their flanking arrays of twelve smaller masts, each complex occupies the ground space of eleven Pentagons. Operating at 2,000,000 watts, the station will be 40 times more powerful than the biggest commercial stations and three times more powerful than the mightiest military transmitters known to exist...
...common source: young people. The Labor Party grew to power with help from Britain's discontented, we-can-change-the-world young folk. The Daily Mirror (circ. 4,571,000), serving up a spicy blend of triangular love, bloody crimes, and pictures of young ladies in the near buff came to command the world's largest newspaper audience of readers under 35 years: some 1,500,000. But in recent months, the Mirror has begun to wonder if, so far as its youthful readers are concerned, it might not have some hardening of the arteries. To Mirror Proprietor...
...column by Labor M.P. Richard Grossman, who, with help from the Mirror's Cudlipp, had also written the scathing but ineffective campaign broadside called "The Tory Swindle." And finally, out went a British newspaper institution: a comic-strip character named Jane, who won fame by appearing in the near altogether at any and every opportunity. Jane, by calendar count, should now be about 53 years old, and her lissome virtues have palled on Britain's youth. Installed in her place was a postgraduate nymphet named Patti...