Word: radius
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...claimed that many defense workers are turning down overtime work because it costs them so much time and energy to commute to overcrowded cities where they work. He may have been thinking of Bath (Me.) Iron Wofks (destroyers), to which workers are commuting over a 30-60-mile radius. In tiny Sidney (N. Y.), mushrooming with a Bendix aircraft-parts plant, vacant homes have been sought 25 miles away in Norwich, N. Y.* At Charlestown (Ind.), the Government has given up the job of housing 5,000 powder-plant workers, hires commuters from Louisville 15 miles away (TIME...
Burdened with a lot of weight that Army pursuit ships do not need-catapult and arresting gear, a beefed-up tail for carrier service, flotation gear-the Vought-Sikorsky F4U still has a cruising radius of more than 1,000 miles, a service ceiling in excess of 30,000 feet. Fitted with the new 2,000-h.p. engine - in place of the 1,850-h.p. that now drives it-it will have still better performance...
...statistics made good reading to all Hitler-haters-Consolidated: weight, 20 tons; cruising range, 1,500-mile radius; speed, 300 m.p.h.; crew, nine; wing span, 110 ft.; engines, four 1,200-h.p. Pratt & Whitneys; bomb load, maximum five tons. Boeing: weight, 22 tons; cruising range, 1,500-mile radius; speed, 280 m.p.h.; crew, nine; wing span, 110 ft.; engines, four 1,200-h.p. Wright Cyclones; bomb load, maximum five and a half tons...
...unsafe for a fleet to fight too far from its base, for unless ships can get back to their docks and repair shops, in case of damage, they are at the mercy of enemy submarines and air raiders. The naval rule of thumb for a safe operating radius for a fleet is 2,500 miles from its base. The only fleet operating base of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific is at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Only sketchy facilities for planes and light craft exist at other U. S.-owned islands. At Manila there are no adequate facilities for overhaul...
...more ships, air planes, munitions . . . into democracy's fight against Hitlerism." The White Com mittee, which pounded home the idea of sending 50 destroyers to help England on the seas, last week proposed sending 25 Army Boeing Flying Fortresses, mighty bombers with a 3,000-mile cruising radius, to help England...