Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...level the city, threaten the life of everyone in Pittsburgh, and spread lethal ash across a strip of West Virginia, into Virginia and Maryland (see map). If the wind were stronger than it was at the time of the Bikini test, the fatal fallout from a Cleveland bomb could reach all the way to Washington...
...slashing that American films undergo in foreign countries may somewhat pacify those who grumble whenever the impassioned scenes in French imports are suddenly cut short. Bathing suit sequences that wouldn't make an American Grandma blush are scrapped minutes after they reach the Irish censors' office, and Tarzan has never appeared in Spain without a full suit of clothes. Since nearly 40 percent of Hollywood's profit comes from abroad, the film czars have gathered legions of experts to remove objectionable parts before they leave this country. But it's impossible to out guess foreign whims, and the film companies...
...learning to move skillfully on a pair of artificial legs, he was back in the R.A.F. as a fighter pilot, and during World War II Squadron Leader Bader personally accounted for 22½-German planes. His career became a British legend, faithfully recorded in Paul Brickhill's biography, Reach for the Sky (TIME, Aug. 2). Today, at 45, as adviser for flight operations for Shell Petroleum Co., Ltd., Group Captain Bader must do some of his traveling in commercial airliners-and for all their comfort, he does not like them...
...high for the rates the traffic will bear. But in the next few years Henderson expects to see "a rash of new hotels" in the U.S. Says he: "With the population growth and the increasing patronage of hotels, the price per room tends to rise, and will soon reach a point at which a hotel builder can go in, do his own financing and make a profit." Henderson himself expects to build ten new hotels in the next ten years, and see Sheraton's assets grow another $100 million...
Superintendent Gores predicted that the plan may be a vital factor in determining methods of dealing with the critical scarcity of teachers expected when the nation's post-war babies reach secondary school age. "State normal schools provide elementary teachers, but this is the first time that a way has been devised for encouraging the necessary numbers of well-qualified people to teach in the high schools." The deluge of children is now in the lower grades of the public school systems...