Word: stripping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Establishment of the lines would not affect any building now in existence, but would prevent further construction within a 65-foot wide strip down the street. Part of the Health Center might have to be set back as much as 25 feet from the present edge of the street...
Glaring Error. In Chitose, Japan, after a thief had removed three of four radar reflectors from the landing strip of a nearby U.S. Air Base and a ground radar man had detected the fourth and last reflector drifting off on his scope, police, summoned by the radarman, found the reflector loaded on the bicycle of Shigeru Takagi, 32, who confessed that he had taken the others, but grumbled that a local pawnshop had paid him only $2.78 apiece...
Hard by a strip of wild, windblown Pacific shore near Lompoc, Calif., construction workers at Vandenberg Air Force Base last week were digging a 15-story hole in the ground. Within weeks, the deep cylindrical pit will be paved with concrete so thick that months must pass before it cures. Then the U.S. Air Force will slide a 90-ft., 117-ton monster into its perpendicular den and seal it with heavy concrete doors against the megaton shocks of man-made thermonuclear quakes. The monster is the Titan intercontinental ballistic missile, the first weapon in Air Force history...
...fighting spread from Algeria's mountains to its rich coastal strip and bustling cities, and as terror bombing deliberately sought innocent victims, the French army in response resorted to measures that outraged the world. When the rebels in August 1955 massacred 70 European settlers, including women and children, the French, adopting the doctrine of "collective responsibility," razed ten Algerian villages. In a report, which...
...Sunset Strip (ABC, 9:30-11 p.m.). Girl on the Run, a new detective series, has a main character no more novel than an ex-OSS officer. But with Marion (See Here Private . . .) Hargrove to write the script, the show has its moments...