Word: sites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even as Wilson ordered the IRBM nuptials, the Army reported that it had scored a major research breakthrough. A Redstone-built, rocket-powered Jupiter "C" test vehicle, fired 400 miles into the ionosphere from its launching site at Cape Canaveral. Fla.. reached a top speed of 12,000 m.p.h., dropped into the Atlantic with its nose cone intact, despite the destructive 20,000° friction heat generated on its "reentry" into the earth's atmosphere. Thus the Army laid claim to being the first to solve the fantastically complicated "reentry problem" (and also exulted in the fact that...
CONRAD HILTON is dickering to build $16 million hotel in New Orleans on Tulane University-owned land. Main problem is that Hilton wants to buy the site but Tulane wants to lease it for $200,000 a year...
...Designated Copenhagen as the site of the next meeting of the Central Committee in August...
...along on his Grand Pilastre attempt, Bonatti picked Toni Gobbi, a wiry, middle-aging former lawyer who long ago chucked his law career to become a master ice climber. By evening of the first day they had reached a 10,725-ft. jump-off site, went to sleep directly below the enormous wall of Grand Pilastre. Recalled Bonatti: "It looked bad. Our legs shook a little...
...from Rubble. Hardly a decade ago, the scene would have been unthinkable. Krupp and his eleven directors were in prison, convicted of war crimes. In Essen, a bomb-strewn jungle of twisted steel and rubble covered the site of the mighty steel plant, bristling with naked chimneys, that had once been Krupp's throbbing heart and muscle. Across Germany, Krupp's vast holdings were rapidly being dismantled and shipped off by the Allies, determined to stamp out "the merchants of death" who in two world wars supplied the cannon used by the long German columns to blast their...