Word: tower
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British learned something last week about the durability of Nazi military engineering. They set off 50,000 pounds of TNT in order to obliterate a huge concrete flak tower in Berlin's Tiergarten. When the smoke and dust had cleared, the structure merely bulged slightly; it had only been chipped...
Rumours of a radio tower stop Lowell House were laid to rest yesterday when Cecil Roberts of the Maintainance Department said that the workmen were merely repainting and regilding the dome and weather vane...
...scaffolding, which caused the speculations, will be taken down when the job is finished in two or three weeks, he said. The weather vane and the small yellow painted cupola will be gilded while the tower dome will get another coat of blue paint...
...search and rescue unit of the Hawaiian Sea Frontier picked up the distress signal. A converted Army B17, Honolulu-bound from Kwajalein, was running out of fuel 100 miles west of Barbers Point. In the control tower on Oahu, controlmen listened to the calm voice of disaster: "Number Three Engine is out at 2,200 feet. . . . Two and Three Engines dead at 1,400 feet . . . losing altitude. ... I'd better go ahead and set down while I have two engines. . . ." There was a pause. Then, "Now ditching." At 11:46, the radio went...
Counterpoint. Walter S. Tower, slight, sandy-haired president of the American Iron & Steel Institute, was left officially speechless by FTC's assault, declined all comment. His spokesman, however, predicted that most steel customers would rally to the industry's defense because the multiple basing point system, they say, saves them money...