Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Helder, where The Netherlands had its chief naval base (see map, p. jo). Over the area where they first seek an invasion bridgehead, the Allies must have absolute command of the air. They must be able to cover the invasion with fighters based on Britain, and the actual offensive radius of Britain's fighter squadrons is much less than most people suppose-about 100 miles. Only the fortified stretch of German Europe along the Channel, the near Atlantic and the North Sea is within that radius...
Actors' Equity has modified its contracts, high-priced actors have offered to work at lower salaries; but it still isn't easy. Summer theaters, accustomed to drawing audiences from within a 50-mile radius, can now draw them only from within a five-or ten-mile one. Of roughly 75 theaters, a good third have already called it quits...
Within the 400-mile (average) radius of pursuit, Britain is using Hurricanes fitted with bombs to hop nimbly through the Nazi anti-aircraft barrages by daylight and throw confusion and small-scale destruction into industrial and military establishments and their defenses...
...best U.S. bet for an offensive weapon. Weighing over 1,500 tons and 300-plus feet long, it shoots torpedoes fore & aft, carries quick-firing cannon and anti-aircraft guns, is fast enough to keep up with any fleet. It can cruise on its own for months, with a radius of 20,000 miles. From any angle the sub looked like the best way to clip the tensing strings of Japan's supply lines...
...order for the Japanese fleet, with a cruising radius of less than 2,000 miles, to steam the more than 4,000 miles from Yokohama to our West Coast, and then back again to Japan, it would have to take a large number of slow, highly vulnerable supply ships for the purpose of refueling and repair. With our Pacific Fleet in Pearl Harbor this could never be done, since the auxiliary ships would fall easy prey to American guns. The same holds true for an American attack on Japan. It is 3,394 miles from Honolulu to Yokohama...