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Zeckendorf's project has an impressive economic base. Nassau County, the fastest growing New York City suburb, increased its population 140% between 1940 and 1954. Today the shopping center estimates: 1) a potential market of 1,300,000 (1,600,000 by 1960) inside a ten-mile radius; 2) 37,000 customers for its stores on ordinary shopping days, 57,000 on pre-Christmas peak days; 3) $80 million in gross retail sales its first operating year...
Your readers may be interested to know that several of the more recent determinations of earth's size are much closer to the Army Map Service figure than is indicated by your article. For example, a modern Russian determination gives an equatorial radius of 6,378,245 meters [3443.977 nautical miles -TIME, July 22, 1946]. At a 1953 geodetic meeting, U.S.C.&G.S. Mathematician Erwin Schmid announced a revised determination of the equatorial radius, 6,378,240 meters [3443.974 nautical miles], calculated solely from the latest adjustment of our surveys in the U.S. The new Army Map Service results thus...
...switch off other stations' on the-hour announcements. Last week Storz was warming the mikes in Omaha and Minneapolis for "the biggest one-shot giveaway of all time on either radio or TV." The prize: two bank drafts for $105,000, each hidden within a ten-mile radius of Storz's Stations KOHW and WGDY. which will start broadcasting clues next week. (The insurance group underwriting the prize estimates that there is only one chance in 47 that Storz will have to pay off.) If the booty goes un-found by June 17, Storz will pay only...
...thought it would be fun to make the calculation. And then I thought your readers would like to see how it comes out. Here it is: Take the circumference of the earth in inches. This comes from 3,963.4 x 6.2832 x 5280 x 12 [i.e., radius of earth multiplied by 2π, converted to inches]. Express this as 1.571 x 10^9. Let v equal the electron velocity and c the velocity of light. Then...
...result of all this effort is a new figure for the equatorial radius of the earth: 6,378,260 meters (3,444 nautical miles)*instead of the 6,378,388 meter figure that had been generally accepted. The Army says that the slight difference will be of use in predicting the orbit of the artificial satellite. This is true, but improved knowledge of the earth's size and shape will also be useful to dispatchers of long-range guided missiles...