Word: zero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Right Fork. When the zero hour came, Johnny, pale and nervous, stood watch while Gavenda bloodied his fingers tearing down the last bricks. At 4 p.m. the head guard signaled that the day's work was over, and the guards descended from the fortress walls. Gavenda crawled out of the recessed gun port, got a firm hold on the outer wall and swung himself down to the ground. The others tumbled after him. The six men made a dash for a railroad embankment, ran under its cover to a bridge across the Vah River. Gavenda almost fell over...
...Minute to Zero (Edmund Grainger; RKO Radio) finds sleepy-eyed Robert Mitchum, as a U.S. infantryman, helping outmaneuver the Reds in Korea in 1950. Colonel Mitchum knocks out a Communist supply route and turns the U.S. defensive into an offensive on the eve of the Inchon invasion. As a result, he is promoted to general and wins the love of Ann Blyth. a cute member of a U.N. health & sanitation team in Korea...
From then on, through miles of pipes and batteries of stills and filters, this intermediate and its successors are dissolved and crystallized out, redissolved and re-precipitated, filtered and centrifuged, catalyzed and concentrated, evaporated and distilled, boiled and chilled below zero. These processes go on around the clock, and the bile acid gets no Sundays...
...Ceiling Zero. In Pittsfield, Me., when his small plane went into a spin, Pilot Albert F. Mace, 37, plunged through the roof of his house and into the attic, stepped out of the wreckage slightly bruised...
Test Pilot Bill Bridgeman added one other bit of pertinent information: even at his top speed he had needed no special cooling equipment. Said he: "The plane is soaked in cold at 65° below zero [F.], while the B-29 [from which the Skyrocket is dropped] cruises at an altitude of 35,000 ft. So far that has been all the air conditioning I've needed...