Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thunderbolt is a big fighter. It has a wing span of 41 ft., is comparable in weight to the two-engined, Allison-powered Lockheed P-38 (13,500 lb.). It is pulled through the air by a four-bladed propeller with a diameter of more than twelve feet, is "heavily armored and bristling with large-and small-caliber guns...
Whether it knows it yet or not, the U.S. is becoming the mightiest naval power in the world. Last week that dawning power was underlined once again: within the span of five days the Navy launched a submarine, three destroyers (Aaron Ward, Buchanan and Fahrenheit) and a battleship. Into the James River at Newport News, Va. smoked the hulk of the 35,000-ton Indiana, six months ahead of schedule...
...they reflected on the dreary span of French history arched by their lives, they knew themselves prejudged. Trial proceedings, it was announced, would be published only as they touched on France's unpreparedness for war. Discussion of the origins of the war would be strictly secret. Thus Frenchmen would be told only that they were summoned to die almost weaponless by the leaders who were on trial. Frenchmen would learn nothing of the forces that compelled these old men to lead a weak, ailing nation to doom...
...setting up CPA under the Interior Department, with a single administrator to be appointed (and removed) by him. To counter this move, the Norris forces introduced a bill setting up CPA like TVA-with a three-man board, appointed by the President, with terms extending over a nine-year span...
Crouched on California's Muroc Dry Lake in May 1940 for its first flight, the flying wing, like most airplanes on the ground, looked terrible. Tailless as a Manx cat, it squatted on a three-wheeled undercarriage. Its wing tips (span 38 feet) drooped forlornly. Two pusher propellers poked out of its rump like something an insane designer had tacked on as an afterthought. From its blunt beak thrust a long rod carrying the head of its airspeed indicator. It looked like a ruptured, weather-racked duck, too fatigued to tuck in its wings...