Word: reached
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This gun fires on a relatively flat trajectory with extraordinary accuracy. The Long Tom (maximum range: 14½ miles) can reach into enemy assembly areas, hit tank and troop concentrations and supply depots before the attack begins. In World War II the Long Tom was widely admired in all theaters as a tough, reliable weapon...
Weather balloons, used by scientists to study the upper atmosphere, can reach up more than 21 miles. Rockets fly much higher, but they are too expensive and uncertain to send up on daily errands. Last week a group of upper-air explorers from the University of Denver started using cheaper messengers: sound waves, which soar up 30 miles or more and curve back to earth with valuable information about the air they have passed through...
...prove how shortsighted and unnecessary hoarding was. In sugar, for example, the U.S. has on hand 1,200,000 tons, and could tap at any time another 1,000,000 tons of Cuban sugar. Moreover, the beet and cane crops to be harvested in the U.S. this year would reach nearly 2,500,000 tons...
...case in point was 22-year-old, South Carolina-born Althea Gibson, three times national Negro champion, who last March became the first Negro to reach the final round of the U.S.L.T.A. indoor championships (TIME, April 3). On a recent lecture tour, wrote Alice Marble, more people had asked her about Althea's admission to Forest Hills than about "Gussie's panties." So she had investigated...
...other famous names of World War II-Douglas, Grumman, Fairchild Engine & Airplane, Martin, Northrop, Republic-are at work. All told, they are making only 215 planes a month, compared to World War II's peak (in March 1944) of 9,117. For the U.S. to reach such a figure again, as United Aircraft's President H. Mansfield Horner pointed out last week, would require three full years of production. It would take the aircraft engine industry a full year, said Horner, to triple today's production of 5,000 engines a year, another year to boost production...