Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...best way to avoid this misadventure is "loft-bombing," which uses the speed of the airplane to make the bomb behave like an artillery shell. The airplane is equipped with a "black box" of gyros and electronics named LABS (Low Altitude Bombing System), manufactured by Minneapolis-Honeywell Regulator Co. The plane approaches the target flying as low as possible to keep below the enemy's radar. The atom bomb under its belly has been set to explode in the desired manner, at a predetermined altitude, or after actually penetrating the ground. The LABS apparatus has been cranked full...
...level air would keep it from making a steady bombing run. But it flies pretty fast nevertheless, and if it is flying at 500 m.p.h. (733 ft. per second) when the bomb is released, the bomb starts its curve with the muzzle velocity of an 81-mm. mortar shell, whose range is two miles...
With tragedies in style, James Cagney made his TV dramatic debut on NBC's Robert Montgomery Presents, as a fumbling sergeant in the U.S. Military Escort Detachment carrying a flag-draped victim of a Communist mortar shell back to the boy's home town. LIFE Staff Writer Robert Wallace's script (Soldier from the Wars Returning) was a noble-minded but often pedestrian tone poem which confused patriotism with adulation of the anonymous dead. Cagney's usual clipped, staccato style was properly subdued-especially when, at the end, he tried to work out a salvation...
...sheath-like suits will dominate the 1957 lines. As the first fall showings got under way in New York last week, it was plain that bathing-suit manufacturers had taken their style cues largely from Broadway: a trend to the My Fair Lady look, with Empire bosoms, the half-shell bra, wide shoulder straps, Gay-Nineties stripes, and knee-length pants that can be rolled up for swimming...
...Royal Dutch-Shell got 59,300 acres of lake concessions, plus 98,800 acres of exploration concessions. The company paid as much as $2,500 an acre for the choicest lake-bottom. Total cost: $65 million...