Word: skies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Later at a firing-range observation post he watched heavily burdened paratroopers -850 in all-come tumbling out of the sky. Tons of ammunition and equipment hit the ground as they assembled and opened fire. In the neatest trick of the day, four C-82s dropped four huge 105 mm. howitzers and four towing jeeps. All but one gun floated safely down under billowing, 100 ft. cargo chutes, and the cannon were firing within twelve minutes after delivery...
UNITED NATIONS Planets in the Sky...
...today, the Tercentary Celebration in 1936, the band played for the first time Anderson's specially arranged Harvard medley. "Tercentenaria." At the closing celebration, the musicians climbed aboard a barge, and introduced the piece to cheering onshore crowds while sailing down the Charles River past the Andering sky made it one of the most spectacular productions of the decade...
...modern building houses the offices and studios of WBZ, WBZ-FM, WBZ-TV, and short-wave WBOS; the station realized two years ago that they were all too big to squeeze inside the old Hotel Bradford headquarters. Outside, next to the building, the high tower lights up the night sky and sends the station's FM and TV signal over a radius of 65 miles...
...observers watch the rocket with telescopes. One station notes the east-west component in the rocket's course; the other the north-south component. Set up in front of each telescope is a "sky screen" with curved lines on it. If the rocket crosses one of these lines, it is likely to fly out of bounds...