Word: 4e
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...months, has since delivered more than 125 Corsair IIs to the Navy, which has ordered 1,500 (estimated cost per craft: $1.4 million, v. $9.75 million for the F-111B). The Air Force has ordered approximately 500. The Corsair II will replace the Navy's A-4E Skyhawk and the Air Force's F-100 Super Sabre...
...Houghton Library, Harvard's chief depository for rare books and manuscripts. The archives, like all of Houghton's collections, are maintained at an even 70 degrees F. and 50 percent humidity to ensure their physical survival. The classified archives, including all of Sedova's papers, are kept in 4E boxes in a locked room along with a number of other classified collections...
Amid gentle swells 50 miles off the coast of North Viet Nam, the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Oriskany swung north ward into the wind. Four A-4E Skyhawk jet bombers soared gracefully off the flight deck. At 7:38 a.m., four more were being readied in a hangar bay far below, when a shouting sailor burst from a 15-ft.-square locker near by. Be hind him was an ominously hissing stack of 700 Mark-24 magnesium parachute flares. He barely had time to dog down the hatch on the locker and race for a phone when the flares began...
...million; the planes were originally developed for distribution to U.S. allies under military-assistance pacts. Canada, on the verge of ordering 200 F-5s, is debating whether to switch to the costlier McDonnell F4, whose interceptor model is the hottest in the U.S. inventory, or to the Douglas A-4E Skyhawk, which can land on a carrier. Australia has decided to buy ten Lockheed P-3 Orion antisubmarine planes. West Germany, whose purchases account for nearly half of U.S. foreign arms sales so far, has agreed to buy three guided-missile destroyers for $150 million each...