Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...importance of this fact is that this part of Alaska also lies along the route that any Oriental invader would naturally take in approaching the U. S. A ship following a great-circle course from Yokohama to San Francisco passes within 300 miles of the Aleutian Islands. The seemingly shorter route via Hawaii is 1,100 miles longer. So an invader intending to attack the west coast of the U. S. would find it a great advantage to snaffle Alaska and use it as an advance base for operations by air and sea against the U. S. proper...
...Washington, which Seattle considers hers although it stretches far beyond the city limits. Lake Washington is beautiful but sometimes a nuisance. Seattle's main gateway to the east is North Bend on the Sunset Highway, until recently a 42-mile ride. The road could have been 14 miles shorter had not Lake Washington lain athwart...
Giving Caesar the benefit of an elevated takeoff, the experimenters first launched him with lead weights totaling two pounds attached to his feet. His flight was "normal, effortless, playful." When the weights were increased to four pounds his flights were shorter, obviously strained, and there were no dips, glides, circles. Eight pounds Caesar could not handle at all. Though he "beat the air wildly" he flew only 30 or 40 ft. before flumping to earth...
...extra expense of the long haul rather than spend exchange in the Western Hemisphere. But Standard Oil's (N. J.) big refinery in Aruba, Royal Dutch Shell's huge plant in Curaçao, both in the Dutch West Indies, with a haul almost three times shorter to British ports, may also be in line for a bigger slice of Allied business-especially of finished petroleum products, since France's refineries are now in Nazi hands. One Western Hemisphere producer knew for sure that it had lost a market when Italy entered the war. Soon after Mussolini...
...Cheap, shorter-lived, mass-production engines...