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...miles, and that its maximum velocity is around 4,000 miles per hour. Near the end of its steep fall, atmospheric resistance slows it down to 1,000 m.p.h. or less, but since that is still faster than the speed of sound, it gives no audible warning. The whoosh of its passage is heard after the explosion. It digs a crater 30 ft. wide by 30 ft. deep...
...inchers (nine) down to 20-mm. antiaircraft pieces, an Iowa needs more than half her complement of 2,500 men simply to man her guns. She is armored with 16-inch plate, is built so ruggedly that the recoil of her main batteries is reduced to an unexciting whoosh in the engine rooms below. Her speed is "more than 30 knots," her maneuverability better than many warships one-tenth as large...
...Bong] likes to get into his Lightning and to fly. Every time he did he came in off the sea at ten feet or so, pulled his plane up a bit and went over our camp ... Each time there was a whoosh! as the palm trees bent at a hurricane angle and the breeze raised the tent...
Each time the President has set up a big new agency, most of the citizenry has sighed a whoosh of relief and gone off about their business. But by last week, when OWM was created, the people had no breath left. They were all whooshed out. One agency after another had sprung open at the seams under savage pressure from without, revealing civil wars boiling within...
...subassemblies. To protect workmen against spray vapors and reduce fire hazard, each compartment is equipped with a curtain of water through which air is drawn by huge fans. When all sections are operating, every minute 3,200 gal. of water will fall, 496,000 cu. ft. of air will whoosh...