Word: tunnelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Still more complicated planes are on the way, and last week Boeing was preparing for them. The company started tearing down its supersonic-speed air tunnel, where models of the B-52 had been tested, to make way for a $1,500,000 tunnel to test even greater speeds. In the new one, Boeing will start work on supersonic bombers to replace...
...alphabet, marched the others: India's athletes, in light green and white flannels and gay turbans; the Russians, men in cream-colored flannels, women in bright blue blazers; the 368-member U.S. team: and the Finns, bringing up the rear as Olympic hosts. Then out of a stadium tunnel loped a balding, slightly thick-waisted runner in blue shirt and white trunks...
Like an army awaiting H-hour, 150 huge trailer trucks lined up on the New Jersey side of the Hudson River one night last week. At midnight the trucks thundered into Manhattan by bridge and tunnel, fanned out over Long Island and northern suburbs. It was the first time in 70 years that yellow margarine could be legally sold in New York State, the nation's biggest market. By noon, a total of 400 trucks, some of them blaring banners labeled "Operation Oleo," had stocked almost every food store in the state...
...formed, he thinks, when a large meteorite hit the ridge at a very small angle. Its speed carried it through the loose material and down to the solid rock below the peak of the ridge. Then it bounced up like a ball and tore into the open, leaving a tunnel. The inside of the tunnel may be lined with a casing of glassy once-molten rock which solidified quickly enough to keep the moon's gravitation from collapsing the tunnel...
...rocket-borne explorers from the earth ever land on the moon, Nininger suggests, they may be grateful for his tunnel. It will give them valuable shelter from small meteorites and other annoying hazards of the moon's airless surface...