Word: travelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into the Blue. Ten years of uneasy peace, say military scientists, should bring outer space missiles close to maturity. By that time atomic power (looking constantly better) should give them enough energy to travel almost anywhere in space at almost unlimited speed...
...went on in the corners was virtually private business until last month, when the U.S. crashed head-on into Britain while it was trying to reach an agreement with Mexico. Until then, the U.S., still clinging to its first dream, had signed almost a score of treaties* for air travel and landing rights. But Mexico put off the U.S. with plenty of argument, last and most clinching of which was the fact that opportunistic Britain had just signed an agreement with Argentina to split 50-50 on passengers, cargo, and flights passing from one to the other...
McKinley to Truman. In Lafayette, Ind., Spanish-American War Veteran Robert E. McCann, who had paid his way home from the Philippines in '99, finally got a Government travel check...
Step by step, the Army was approaching the push-button millennium when giant military rockets will travel thousands of miles cargoed with wholesale death. Recently, at White Sands, N.M., a German V-2 roared up 104 miles, 20.5 miles higher than the previous record. In its nose it carried an armored capsule packed with instruments for observing pressures, temperatures and cosmic rays...
Their warning dovetails neatly with the medical belief that tonsillectomies and tooth extractions are dangerous during polio season. Reason: many polio infections enter the body through exposed nerves in the nose or mouth, travel along nerves to the spinal cord, where their ravages begin. "The rich nerve supply of the dental pulp offers a most formidable invasion point for the virus," explain Drs. Reese and Frisch. Some of their evidence...