Word: 36s
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that the Air Force, with its $1.4 billion B-36 program, was "putting all its eggs in one basket?" General Hoyt Vandenberg, Air Force chief, answered with figures. B-36s, he said, comprised only 5% (four groups) of the total of regular military aircraft. The Air Force also had eleven groups of other bombers (about 330 B-29s and B-50s), and some 33 groups of heavy and medium reconnaissance, fighter, troop carrier and other miscellaneous aircraft...
...shares soared as fast as those of Free State Gold Areas, Ltd., the company which owned options on the 4,200-acre Erfdeel farm. From 13s.6d. ($2.72) the shares rose to a top of 36s. ($7.25), giving whopping paper profits to Free State Gold Areas' principal owner, Joseph Milne...
...rocket units. In a race of bomber v. fighter the B-47 Stratojet walked away from the F-80, then was outrun by the swept-back F-86, which has already clocked a record 670.981 m.p.h. For a roaring finale the Air Force sent 16 huge, cigar-shaped B-36s lumbering overhead...
...like good sense to the committee. At week's end, they voted 16-to-1 for the 70-group force, sent a bill to the Senate floor carrying $822 million to buy, as a starter, 825 new jet fighters (P-84s, improved P-80s), 28 heavy bombers (B-36s and B-50s) and jet bombers...
There were few doubts as to what that policy would be. Among its pointedly implied recommendations: ¶ The abandonment of the present U.S. military program, which embraces the manufacture of B-29s, B-36s, $13 billion for the War and Navy Departments, bases in Greenland and Okinawa. ¶ The abandonment of the U.S. atomic-control plan in favor of something more like Russia's counterproposal, which would give Russia atomic power without necessarily subjecting her to international scrutiny. ¶ The abandonment of U.S. resistance to Russian attempts to "obtain warm-water ports and her own security system...