Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wanted them to build a bridge. This bridge was to span a river near Rzhev. On the bank opposite the Russians, the Germans were waiting & watching. Yet this bridge had to be so devised that the Germans would neither see the men while they were building it, nor see the bridge after it was built. The men gaped at Engineer Sosnovkin, and in their individual ways pondered the demands of the insatiable Liubimets. Then they went to work...
Sirs: You say (TIME, Nov. 16) that General Doolittle "was first to span the continent in a single day." Is that statement correct? ... I rely on memory alone; but it has been my understanding that about 20 years ago the feat credited to General Doolittle was accomplished by Earl Maughan. . . . Let credit be awarded to the one who earned...
...young men. Youngest is 45-year-old Brigadier General James Harold Doolittle, the weather-beaten little man who led U.S. bombers over Tokyo and won a Congressional Medal of Honor for his exploit. Daredevil flyer, Jimmy Doolittle has a long list of aviation "firsts." He was first to span the continent in a single day, first Army pilot to do the hazardous outside loop, first to try an experimental kind of blind flight. Jimmy Doolittle is in command of Eisenhower's air force...
...certainly had the impression that for the first time?"the very first time"?it knew exactly what the military expected to be done in a given span. For the first time?"the very first time"?WPB considered that it had a specific, intelligible, practicable schedule of requested production, reasonably keyed to the actual production capacity of the U.S. The men in charge of war production were even able to visualize an overall, master plan for 1943?including a marked increase in the dollar-volume of aircraft, a great increase in the number of heavy, long-range bombers like...
...virtue of the Zero is that it handles well-climbs fast and maneuvers quickly. Its speed is good (more than 350 m.p.h. at 10,000 feet) and its service ceiling is exceptional: 36,000 feet. It is light (5,140 Ib. is normal flying weight) and rather small (wing span, 39.4 feet; length, 28.4 feet...