Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nearly every city in the country has some unit of the armed forces training close enough to it to come within the jurisdiction of the proposed measure. As more and more specialized units are set up for the 7,500,000 men expected in the Army by spring, the radius of the dry area will be practically nation-wide. Congressional support should be comfortably abundant since Congress can well use a palliative for anxious mothers. The timing, the phrasing, and the scope of this amendment shows that its proponents have lost none of their parliamentary skill and knack for careful...
...across the French border last week, the German people might have seen the crater of a new volcano. The U.S. had broadcast to the French, for whom we have "only feelings of greatest sympathy," a warning: "Listen: To all inhabitants of the occupied zone living within a two-kilometer radius [about a mile and a quarter] around the factories working for Germany, we recommend [that they] evacuate their homes. . . . The objectives which are liable to be attacked by our bombers are all factories making or repairing planes, tanks, vehicles, locomotives, firearms or chemical products." Two days later, with 500 Allied...
...With a practicable combat radius of 600 miles or more, compared to about 150 miles for Spitfires, the P-38s greatly extend the areas in continental Europe which can be attacked under essential fighter cover...
...Islands, long coveted by military strategists of many nations-and especially Japan. Also acquired from the owner, Ecuador, is another base on Santa Elena peninsula, Ecuador's westernmost tip, commanding the entrance to Ecuador's strategic Guayaquil Gulf. These new military outposts form a protective bastion within radius of 785 to 1,000 miles guarding the western approaches to the Panama Canal...
That is what it is like to be inside a sturdy observation tower a mile from the exploding block busters which the Army is now testing at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. But the observers don't go through it for the sensation. The craters are measured, the radius of destruction noted (everything within 100 yards is destroyed and a man might be killed at even greater distances). Of primary interest to Army Ordnance is the weapon itself-the number and shape of the fragments from the exploded bomb, the action of the powder charge. All this data is filed...