Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Against Demolitions. Said Colonel Hamilton: "This is a war of marching and fighting, more marching and more fighting." It is also an engineers' war. The fight goes from height to height along twisting mountain roads that run three miles for every air mile. High-span bridges are blown out everywhere. Once Colonel Hamilton took a trip from divisional to regimental headquarters. In 13 miles, he found four or five bypasses built around bridges that had been demolished by the retreating Germans...
Less than three years ago, boyish, trigger-tempered Ted Nelson, 36, was an $11-a-day welder in San Francisco's Mare Island Navy Yard. His financial resources hardly bulged his vest pocket. Last week Ted Nelson, in his own spick-& -span new $330,000 San Leandro plant, received an Army-Navy E, topped off the celebration by announcing the opening of a second plant in Camden, NJ. in a few months. He had skyrocketed up on a Buck-Rogerish invention of his own, aptly dubbed the "rocket...
...tireless statisticians of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. have figured out that no one should let himself gain weight after the age of 25-if he wants to live his full span. Last October the company published a set of ideal weights for women. Last week's Statistical Bulletin contained the table...
...found that an air mass retains the same specific humidity and potential temperature throughout its journey from the polar to the temperate zone. Result was more accurate forecasting over longer ranges; the U.S. Weather Bureau began to issue five-day forecasts, is steadily extending the span...
...They span the South Atlantic from the "hump" to Africa's west coast, shuttle across equatorial Africa and follow the Nile from Khartoum to Cairo, thence to Saudi Arabia and Karachi. From Cairo they fan out into Trans-Jordan and on to Teheran. From Karachi they reach across India, climb over the Himalayas and thunder across the roof of the world into China...