Word: zeros
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasures of civilization which returned to Hanover, New Hampshire, once again this weekend for the 41st Annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival had to contend with the primordial elements last night as temperatures dropped to 25 and 30 degrees below zero. One effect of the freeze cut the usual eight mile cross-country ski race scheduled for this morning to six miles...
...last war, news of bottlenecks and strikes at home brought bitterness. To point this up, an infantry lieutenant recently suggested a trade union for fighters. "We are not directly concerned with higher wages," he explained, "but would like to have collective protection against lethal projectiles, zero temperatures, and exile from our families...
...Sept. 19, Tatum was shot down-by two bullets from North Korean rifles. He did not even notice that the plane had been hit until the pressure gauge on the instrument panel began to fall off to zero, and he realized that one of the slugs had hit fuel lines. He managed to turn around and ditch the plane about a mile offshore in the sea. He remembers scrambling into the life raft and watching the plane sink slowly. "I gave it sort of a half salute." His main worry was what his plane captain would think when Ensign Tatum...
This atomic-age potboiler appears to make sense to its adolescent audience. Many adult viewers are soon lost in its trackless, pseudo-technical doubletalk ("Forty-seven degrees inclination, speed seven miles per second; temperature calibrated at zero three; interior pressure stable at nine oh nine"), or by the sudden mid-program appearance on Captain Video's "Scanner" of a five-minute stretch of western movie. Du Mont's Vice President James L. Caddigan, who created Captain Video in 1949, explains: "The western is there to give us the pace and action that...
...mile stretch of their new pipeline from Regina, Sask. to the U.S. border, but with the following difference: a radioactive source several hundred times "hotter" was used, for the pipe was three to eight feet underground. My turban had earflaps, for the temperature sometimes dipped to ten below zero...