Word: spans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first emphasis has been upon the danger of bombing. It is true that there has been no bombing in Europe ever any distance even remotely comparable to the span of the Atlantic ocean. But it has been easy to picture bombers as flying over our cities--and exciting to appoint fire-wardens, organize defense corps, and in general put or communities, large and small, in a state of readiness for blitzkreig. Now comes an announcement from Lloyd's London, the final authority on the element of chance in this world, that they are ready to give insurance against damage...
...which choked off ferry traffic in New York harbor, it took longer to reach Manhattan from Brooklyn than from Albany. This gave John Roebling a chance to carry out a pet project which previously had been laughed down: the great Brooklyn Bridge with its 1,600-ft. center span. Brooklyn Bridge cost him his life: a ferryboat crashed into a pier on which he was standing, crushed his foot, gave him tetanus...
...Nobody knows in detail what effect nutrition has on life span...
...route will go from New York City (with Baltimore as alter nate) to San Juan, Puerto Rico, to Port of Spain, Trinidad, to Belem and Natal, Brazil. Then it will hop 1,800 miles - not quite the span from Newfoundland to Ireland - across the Atlantic to Monrovia, Liberia (Bathurst, Gambia and Freetown, Sierra Leone as alternates), will hug the hump of Africa as far as Nigeria, then cut across to Khartoum and perhaps eventually to Cairo. Across Africa, Pan Am planned direction finders, hangars, fields, communications and weather stations, resthouses. Priorities for the necessary materials are expected to be granted...
...first duties of air power used as a sea weapon are scouting, reconnaissance, keeping touch with the enemy. The Bismarck might never have been sunk had she not been stalked by U.S.-made Consolidated (PBY-5) Catalinas. These flying boats, which have a 104-ft. wing span and weigh 27,080 lb. but are called "sardine tins" by British pilots because of their compactness compared with the monstrous British-built Short Sunderlands, can cruise over 4,000 miles, and last week one of them set a British record by staying in the air for 24 hours...