Word: yds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scotch on the Rocks. Natural disasters seemed few'and far between in the long solstice of Queen Victoria's reign, but man could always make his own. and give his own reasons. The "rainbow bridge" (1 mile, 1.705 yds.) across the Tay estuary, with its curving, spidery iron girders, was the wonder of an age of railways and engineering. European princes and the Emperor of Brazil visited the marvel. Queen Victoria in her widow's weeds trundled safely across. The railway company that built it (between 1871 and 1877) said it was "a structure worthy of this...
...Harry Bright drove ahead, hoping to steal the race. But 2½-laps from the tape, Arnie's watch told him it was time. He floated wide on a turn, kicked downhill into his fluid-drive sprint, and the race was over. Sowell was almost 4 yds. in front of Courtney and still moving away when he finished. Time: 1:50.3, a new indoor record, two-tenths of a second faster than the mark made 15 years ago by the late great John Borican...
...Wanamaker Mile, Olympic 1,500-Meter Champion Ron Delany ran his usual heady race, let Hungarian Refugee Laszlo Tabori and North Carolina's Jim Beatty scrap for the lead, then kicked past to finish 7 yds. in front of Tabori in a comfortable...
...Allis Chalmers' 25-ton, 280-h.p. motor scraper, with top capacity of 20 cu. yds. Its business end is shaped like a garden shovel...
...General Motors' rubber-tired, 518-h.p. Goliath scraper, which takes 24 cu. yds. of aggregate with one bite of its 14-ft. bulldozer blade. Each of its two diesels connects with a single track, so that one track can continue forward while the other reverses, spinning the giant around...