Word: united
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bank, a cluster of stores. This year Chrysler Corp. moved in with an $85 million body plant and jobs for 3,500. Now Twinsburg has big-city dreams. The town fathers are planning a $600,000 high school and a big shopping center, are putting up a 1,000-unit housing project, a sewage plant, and the state is building a four-lane highway from factory to town...
...Shame on You!" Reported an eyewitness: "The people seemed suddenly aware that the Russians would not kill them, as though an order had gone out that there were to be no shootings by military units. They surged around armored cars, crying, "What are you doing here? This is our city. Go home! Shame on you!" The Russian soldiers showed the strain of their position, shouted back at the crowd, waved their arms, guns. Then, to shift the crowd, the Russians got their tanks moving, wheeled and skidded them on the sidewalks-showing how much they had recently learned about maneuvering...
...like a wad of aluminum foil. A small capsule of compressed dry nitrogen will expand the plastic to a sphere 20 in. in diameter, which will follow at first the same orbit as the hardshelled satellite. Gradually the two will separate. The sub-satellite will have more drag per unit of weight, and so will slow down more quickly. The speed with which it falls behind will tell watchers on the earth below the density of the air that it is passing through...
...varsity has good grounds for feeling confident. Against Brown Wednesday night, the first team moved as a well-functioning unit for the first time this year. The defense was next to unbelievable, stealing the ball time and again, and the fast break was working to fine advantage. Even the second team outplayed the Bruins. although retaining much of its raggedness...
...machine's forecasts do not pinpoint ground-level weather for any locality. They concern the behavior of the high-altitude waves, which have broad control over local ground weather. At present, says Dr. G. R. Cressman, head of the unit, the machine makes fine forecasts of upper-air weather for high-flying aircraft. For ground-level weather, it is not yet very good...