Word: runway
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Mayor Wilson's nearly completed 1,000-acre memorial to himself ran into an obstacle. Some 3,000 feet dead east of the 5,000-foot east-west "instrument-landing" runway lies historic Fort Mifflin, which held out, but not long enough, against the British when they besieged Philadelphia in 1777. Fort Mifflin nowadays is a powder keg. Behind its ancient ramparts the U. S. Navy keeps some 450,000 lbs. of high explosives, convenient to the nearby Philadelphia Navy Yard. No Philadelphian likes to think about what might happen if an airplane landed smack...
...much a menace to Philadelphia as to the airport. But the Navy Department stubbornly insisted that there and nowhere else will it keep its Delaware Bay powder. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Authority announced it would withhold approval of the field until the direction of the dangerous runway was changed. WPA withdrew the 800 workers working at the field...
...poor runway, David Ives '41 won the broad jump with a leap of 10 feet 6 and three-quarter inches. Wiren of Northeastern was a close second at 19 feet, 5 inches. Steven Madey '40 cleared 12 feet to lead in the polevault. Andrew Rosenberger '41 and Otis Minot ocC, followed with 11 feet 6 inch soars...
After her ten lissome mannequins had done their stuff on what she called "the runway," the dewy-eyed Miss Lord turned her attention to Harvard...
Despite unobstructed approaches and broad, long runways (ranging from 3,600 to 6,000 ft.), North Beach has one feature the Civil Aeronautics Authority's safety board may not like-a blind landing runway separated by only 200 feet from the flanking water of Flushing Bay. Last week even Newark's stout advocates feared that C. A. A. might approve North Beach and old Newark Airport might become a ghostly memento in the marshy Jersey meadows...