Word: weighs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...desk in the White House, ready to meet with Vice President Nixon and to give the Cabinet and the NSC a detailed report on the President's condition. Throughout two days in Washington he conferred with members of the White House staff to question, discuss and weigh matters connected with the problem of keeping the executive department running...
Eight-inch shells weigh about 240 Ibs.; so the bomb itself will not weigh more than that, and it may weigh much less since the casing may be lighter than the steel parts of the shell. A fighter-bomber could carry 16 such bombs, each powerful enough to knock the heart out of a good-sized city. A B-47 could carry 50 or more of them on a long flight, and distribute them over a large industrial complex. Atomic shells for 8-in. guns are apparently an accomplished fact, although none has been tested in actual artillery. Next step...
...east end of the Prescelly Mountains in the south of Wales. The stone may have been sacred because it makes fine axes, and the Beaker People had a cult that centered around the ax At any rate, says Atkinson, they must have dragged and floated those 82 tones, weighing up to seven tons, all the way from Wales (about 200 miles). Wessex Aristocrats. Stonehenge II lasted for some 150 years. Then a third people moved in to take over the ancient shrine. They decided that the bluestones were not big enough, so they quarried enormous blocks of sandstone...
...launch not one but six to ten satellite "vehicles" in 1957-58. Dr Homer E. Newell of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory told a Brussels geographical conference last week. The satelites will probably weigh less than 100 lbs., but even if they weigh only 10 Ibs they will be trackable from the earth Any interested party can track them or pick up their radio signals. "The satellites will appear in their orbits," said Dr. Newell "as a gift package from the U.S. Department of Defense...
...giraffes was comparatively easy. Dr. Goetz dug a hole in the ground 8 ft. long and filled it with formalin to preserve his massive specimens. Most interesting to Dr. Goetz were the veins and arteries in the giraffes' long necks. To pump blood so high, giraffes' hearts weigh 25 Ibs., 40 times as much as human hearts. The jugular vein is more than an inch in diameter, and is fitted with an intricate system of efficient valves. They apparently protect the giraffe's head from too much blood when its neck is lowered. The hoselike vein also...