Word: traveling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stars travel alone, like the sun. Many are paired, the two members revolving around each other like the ends of a spinning dumbbell. Such bright stars as Capella, Spica, Castor, Mizar (a Big Dipper star) and Algol (the "Demon Star") are binaries (doubles). Some stars occur in groups of more than two. Astronomers estimate that one-fourth or more of all the stars in the sky are doubles or multiples. Last week astronomers heard of a pair of stellar Siamese twins...
...modern mission of cavalry is reconnaissance, screening advances, protecting flanks and rear in retreat. Men on horses still travel fast through woods, swamps, across streams where mechanized equipment cannot go. Last week, on the tree-fringed parade ground at Fort Oglethorpe, the U. S. Army's one modern cavalry regiment with full equipment showed its paces before leathery Brigadier General Charles L. Scott...
...showed what a newfangled horse outfit could do in maneuvers in Louisiana; and the lean troopers of the Fourth, now about three-fourths equipped, were doing the same thing in Minnesota. Still to be brought up to strength are eleven more regular Army regiments. Equipped to travel 130 miles in six hours on tires, able to cover 40 miles a day, weeks on end, under their own power, the Army's modern horse outfits have many a spot in the hemisphere they can still call their own. For service in the swamps and woods of the southern...
...hardening and toughening steel. As the world's No. 1 steelmaker, the U. S. has imported as much as 911,919 long tons a year (1937), all but a pipsqueak percentage from Russia, the African Gold Coast, Cuba, Brazil, India, the Philippines. Like rubber, manganese has to travel a long, war-periled route to Pittsburgh and Chicago. Enemy control of the seas would put the great steel industry, vital for national defense, in a pretty...
...Point Comfort (where 3-inch anti-aircraft guns ripped the tail from a sleeve target being towed at 8,000 ft.). He stopped at Langley Field (where 6,000 men now work, where 100 warplanes demonstrated). He wound up an eight-hour day, and 100 miles of travel, at the Newport News shipbuilding yard, looked at the new battleship Indiana taking shape, pondered the 45%-finished aircraft carrier Hornet, looked at the two new ways, two new piers, the machine shop and turret shop that are now being built...