Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...buildup that, put 5,000 Marines, 1,700 Army paratroops, 70 Navy warships, 270 carrier-based Navy aircraft and 150 Air Force land-based aircraft into the Middle East within 72 hours began just before 2 o'clock one morning last week. Red-alert telephones jangled at the bedsides of the members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff-Chairman Nathan Twining, the Navy's Arleigh Burke, the Air Force's Thomas Dresser White, the Army's Acting Chief Lyman Lemnitzer (his chief, Maxwell Taylor, was on the West Coast on an inspection trip), the Marine Corps...
...Force men's reports were in, the State Department fired off a protest against 1) the MIG attack upon an unarmed U.S. transport, 2) the brutal mistreatment of the airmen by the Armenian peasants. Said State: "To suggest that a slow, four-engine propeller-type unarmed aircraft would attempt to violate a heavily defended foreign area is preposterous...
...their population, 40% of their grain production, approximately 60% of their coal, iron, steel and aluminum output, and 95% or more of certain key military industries, such as ball-bearing production. They lost 4,000,000 soldiers, dead, wounded or prisoners, and over two-thirds of their tanks and aircraft." A nuclear holocaust might be worse, but Russia has survived a military disaster of the same order of magnitude-survived...
...After five short-lived assaults on the 47-day endurance record for single-engine aircraft (set by Woody Jongeward and Bob Woodhouse in 1949), two madcaps employed by Dallas' hyperthyroid station KLIF gave up for the time being. Their best effort: 12 hours. Actually, there was little reason for them to keep flying; they had already stirred up a mighty propwash of publicity for Promoter Gordon Mc-Lendon's five-station chain...
Slowest segment of the economy to respond to the Department's turnaround on spending is the aircraft industry. While Defense has placed many new orders, most companies are just entering the stage of stepped-up employment. With orders nicely backlogging. the spurt of inventory building and deliveries is at least three months away...