Word: peninsulas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...give him a good shot at the boat's bellowing speed. He opened up his J35 engine, the same model that drives the Air Force's F89 fighter, and Tempo-Alcoa zoomed up to 180 m.p.h. Then he cut the engine. Two miles ahead, a small peninsula called Pelican Point jutted out into the water. The distance seemed safe enough. The boat had earlier slowed from 260 m.p.h. to a stop in less than a mile. But now a sudden breeze stirred sharp ruffles on Pyramid Lake. The chop broke the normal suction grabbing at the hull, turned...
Staudacher crashed into Pelican Point at 150 m.p.h. The boat missed a shelf of rocks by 18 in., rose majestically and hurtled some 150 ft. through the air, came down on a bank of loam and sand that was about the only spot on the peninsula not covered by rocks, skidded nearly into the water on the far side of Pelican Point before stopping...
BIGGEST ALASKAN OIL WELL was brought in by Standard Oil Co. (Calif.) on Kenai Peninsula, 40 miles south of Anchorage. New well, largest of four being jointly developed by Standard and Richfield Oil Corp., has capacity of 1,300 bbl. daily...
...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...
Areas to be studied are Montana, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Northern Wisconsin, and Michigan's upper peninsula. In these states the transition from small to large-scale farming, the lack of near-by markets for goods, potential competition from mines along the St. Lawrence Seaway, and a dearth of new industrial development have created grave problems...