Word: steams
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Alaska has been vulnerable to invasion since navies were converted from sail to steam. It took the airplane to make it a strategic area from which an attack could be launched against the U. S. From the southern boundary of the narrow, water-laced Alaska panhandle which extends southward along the western frontier of Canada, Seattle is only 625 miles by air. From Juneau, considerably farther north and west, Pan American Airways runs regularly, twice a week, flies to Seattle in seven hours. The special importance of this fact is that this part of Alaska also lies along the route...
...smoldered in Rushville, Ind., reading reports that his campaign had stalled. The only answer he got to his daily denunciation of Franklin Roosevelt was an aloof and lofty silence. Mr. Willkie wanted to fight; Mr. Roosevelt made it plain that he was too busy to campaign. Angry, steam up, Mr. Willkie finally climbed aboard his campaign train...
Walls vanished. Men vanished. Living, clothes and flesh torn off, ran screaming, blindly, through an eruption of debris and live steam. In company-owned houses outside the gates, their families were knocked off their feet, and window panes disintegrated. Passengers in a TWA stratoliner, 6,000 ft. up and 20 miles away, saw "huge pillars of white smoke ... a bright flame at the base." In towns 125 miles away people felt the shock...
...industrial growth there (number of plants) was over twice that of the rest of the U. S. Main reasons: cheap and abundant power, the six-foot, 500-mile channel up the Tennessee River. With nearly 1,000,000 kw. in twelve major hydro developments and five big steam plants (of which 300,000 kw. was taken over from private utilities), TVA is already nearly at capacity, must install more (TIME...
Because last year's steam pipe system caused a great deal of air radiation, it had to be discarded in favor of some wiring system. While the actual method that will be employed during the next year is still undecided, it seems likely that the radio frequency waves from the central set will be distributed over shielded cable to the various buildings of the college. From there it will be released to the students' radio sets by way of the steel framework of those buildings...