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...Blue Hills site is the highest point in eastern Massachusetts, and thus the station will be able to cover a 65-mile radius. Central studios and offices will be in Symphony Hall, while cooperating colleges and universities will house auxiliary studios...
...miles in a 60-ft. railroad car. For a truck carrying half as much mail, the cost is 30? a mile plus terminal handling charges. Last week the Post Office said that it would soon start using trucks, instead of railroads, for short hauls within a 200-mile radius of big cities. Truck routes have already been laid out around Boston and St. Louis, with plans for nine other big-city areas to follow. Eventual revenue loss to U.S. railroads, already hard hit by truck competition: $100 million a year...
...super-bomber, says the Air Force, must have a combat radius of 5,000 miles with a bombload of 10,000 lbs., should be able to hit 500 m.p.h. at 55,000 ft. It must carry guns and, perhaps, air-to-air guided missiles, too. But its principal defenses will be altitude and speed. Interceptors are faster than bombers, but if a bomber flies high enough and fast enough, a short-range interceptor has a hard time getting into range before its fuel is gone...
...attention was wrenched abruptly skywards. In three sections of the city, a local survey showed last week, soot was piling up twice as deep as it did in Pittsburgh in the days when Pittsburgh was a standard joke. One expert estimated that the annual fall of soot within a radius of 40 miles from New York City might be as high as 384,000 tons a year. And what disturbed New Yorkers most of all was a new test which showed they sucked in about 185,000 particles of dirt at every breath, including large draughts of such unpleasant byproducts...
...been bought at an Arrny surplus sale. In December, when the owners decided to go on the air commercially, Station Engineer John McCarter, an oldster of 28 who holds a third-class radio operator's card, souped up the transmitter so that it covered a twelve-mile radius...