Word: shelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TANKER PROGRAMS will be kicked off by Royal Dutch-Shell and Esso Petroleum, but U.S. shipbuilders will not share in any of the orders. Oil companies will spend up to $230 million on 40 new tankers (34 for Shell, six for Esso), ranging from 18,000 tons to 36,000 tons, for delivery by 1960. The British will build 22, the Dutch 14, the Germans four...
...took a B-29 to carry the first one, dropped on Hiroshima, which may have weighed more than 10,000 Ibs. The Army's announcement last week that it will abandon its monstrous, 11-in. atomic cannon tells how much the bombs have shrunk. The new atomic shells will fit an 8-in. gun. Since they will have to withstand the shock of firing, they will be much like ordinary 8-in. shells. They will have an internal cavity about 22 in. long and about 5½ in. in diameter in the center. This is apparently big enough...
Eight-inch shells weigh about 240 Ibs.; so the bomb itself will not weigh more than that, and it may weigh much less since the casing may be lighter than the steel parts of the shell. A fighter-bomber could carry 16 such bombs, each powerful enough to knock the heart out of a good-sized city. A B-47 could carry 50 or more of them on a long flight, and distribute them over a large industrial complex. Atomic shells for 8-in. guns are apparently an accomplished fact, although none has been tested in actual artillery. Next step...
First, before he takes one of his rides, he gets a thorough physical examination, including electrocardiogram and X rays. Then, well before blastoff, he begins his preparations for the run. The Fiberglas shell of his helmet is lowered over his head and its cloth neck-shirt zipped shut. Then he wriggles into a blue wool flight suit, puts on thin leather flying gloves and climbs into his seat...
Thank you for giving my country, Afghanistan, some of your space. I laughed with a noise like a church bell when I read that you called it "The Poor Goat" and Asia's "tortoise shell" ... I keep the article in an envelope in my desk, and I will show it to people who say: "Afghanistan? Where is that...