Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, the two survivors lay limply on hospital beds. All B-58s-the hottest bombers in the Air Force arsenal-were unofficially grounded. A deep question plagued the minds of Air Force investigators: how to do a better job of protecting the flyers of the jet age against the bone-crushing hazards of bail-out at supersonic speeds...
...school windows, protected by an 8-ft. overhang to keep sun from desks. But what wowed the school board was that the building came in $40,000 under the estimate. "When they saw the building, they were completely sold," says Hiss triumphantly. "Their minds had been closed since the age of seven. I finally got them sane. After that, I felt like Machiavelli's brother. It was like taking candy from a baby...
Since she burst into their comic-strip world in 1956, the Texas teen-age tomboy named Poteet has brought both joy and dismay to tall-in-the-cockpit Colonel Steve Canyon and Cartoonist Milton Caniff. Last week Caniff acknowledged that he took Poteet out of the strip (607 papers) in early October because of the problems she posed. For one thing, she was upstaging Steve with her giddy flair. For another, he feared she would become sullied by association with another youthful heroine of a different reputation : Lolita...
...immediate reaction of many politicians and businessmen was to call for the classic remedies. They cried for tax cuts, a mammoth government make-work program, many more billions for old-age pensions and unemployment aid. All year long the Eisenhower Administration staunchly resisted temptations to buy its way out of recession, although it speeded up and enlarged present housing and social security programs as antirecession measures. It gave the economy's carefully built-in stabilizers a chance to work and relied on the nation's own basic good health to recover from the slump...
Even arms spending is bringing great benefits to consumers. In 1958 the commercial jet age was born out of the Air Force bombers. In fiscal 1959 the U.S. will spend an increasing amount, as much as $5 billion, on electronic controls and gadgets of all kinds for the new family of missiles and space probes. Out of this vast spending already have come miniature electronic brains and controls for machines, and a whole new family of electric civilian devices. Transistors and other semiconductors are as useful in pocket radios and TV sets as in missiles...