Word: air
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...frosh crew. Says Acheson, archly: "Those who row No. 7 say it is the most important place." He never put on enough weight to row on the varsity, but another old Groton boy and Yale oarsman, Averell Harriman, admiringly remembers the Dean of those days. Says Harriman, with the air of a man making a lasting character judgment: "He was a good...
With a pair of enormous binoculars dangling from his neck, President Harry Truman trotted around Maryland's Andrews Field last week to see what the Air Force was doing about the future. As awed as any other layman, he looked over Boeing's record-breaking B-47 Stratojet with General Ike Eisenhower, impishly poked his glasses into a C82 Flying Boxcar where photographers were waiting to snap his picture. Crawling out of the tailless YB-49 Flying Wing, the President commented crisply: "Think I'll buy it." (Nobody reminded him that the Air Force had canceled orders...
...guests-many of them Congressmen-settled into the wooden stands, the Air Force cut loose with everything it had. F-80s whooshed by, skimming the ground, stunting singly and in tight formation. The spectacular eight-jet Flying Wing took off and zoomed upward, followed by the six-jet B-47, trailing clouds of smoke from 18 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...
Read the Gossips. He began life anew amid the lush estates of Beverly Hills, Hollywood, Brentwood and Bel Air. He bought a shiny new Lincoln and a Cadillac convertible to make himself inconspicuous while working, settled down in a modest apartment to keep himself inconspicuous off the job. He studied the movements of his prey by reading society pages, travel news, and Hollywood gossip columns. He soon had a king's ransom in loot...
...modern air force must have more than well-proved airplanes. It must have advanced designs that are still being tested, aircraft still in the drawing-board stage, and designs that are still gleams in an air designer's eye. Military aircraft are slow to develop, hard to build; every U.S. Army warplane that played a part in World War II was on the drawing boards before Pearl Harbor...