Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reserve squadrons of "weekend flyers," and canceled orders for 100 new Hawker Hunter jet fighters (for the nation that pioneered the jet, postwar plane development has been a continuing disappointment: the Hunter is becoming obsolete just as its bugs are being eliminated, and one of Britain's top aircraft designers declared recently that the eight-jet Boeing B-52 is "five years ahead of any bomber we have...
MISSILE PRODUCTION will be started by Temco Aircraft Co., No. 1 U.S. airframe subcontractor. Dallas firm has just won $16 million Navy contract to develop secret new missile, will increase its 750-man engineering force...
ATOM-POWERED PLANE and nuclear-driven missile development are being sped by U.S. Budget for fiscal 1958, which includes $91 million for aircraft, missile reactors, almost double the 1956 cost of $49.6 million...
...only the most glaring of the satellites' economic difficulties. The shattering of Hungary's economy has cut off scarce manufactured goods-buses, railway cars, consumer products-needed by the other satellites. Lack of Hungarian bauxite and processed aluminum is slowly forcing East Germany's young aircraft industry to a halt. Hungary may have to lay off more than 200,000 workers in the next few months, and unemployment is a major problem in Bulgaria. The breakdown of Hungary's vitally located railroad system has prevented the normal flow of Rumanian oil to Poland, forcing the Poles...
Goals Filled. ODM's Flemming also refused to issue fast tax write-off certificates to help expand production of steel and five other goods (commercial aircraft, aviation fuel, titanium melting, titanium processing and taconite iron ore). The defense expansion goals have been filled, said Flemming. Actually, more plant expansion now would make steel even scarcer by diverting it to new plants that would not be in production until...