Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little more laughter this time, but then Ford called them to order and asked them, one at a time, for a thumbnail report on the state of the world in the areas they had controlled in more glorious days. 'Tin delighted that the Carter Administration has adopted your aircraft-noise program," Ford told William Coleman, who used to be head of the Department of Transportation. The new people were reaping a lot of benefits from the Ford Administration initiatives, lamented Jerry. Take the wiretapping bill, said Ford, turning to former Attorney General Ed Levi. Bill Simon, who used...
Arens, 51, a former director of Israel Aircraft Industry, and Yuval Ne'eman, 52, a defense expert and a professor of physics at Tel Aviv University...
...been a real hot shot, the greatest thing since canned beer. Physics, chemistry, math; Carlo's entire life had been a segies of equations in several variables, and he had never had any problems solving them. All that stood between and a life of designing fighter planes for Grumman Aircraft was a four-year stint at college. And so he came to Harvard to pick up some culture and a little polish and a pretty girlfriend. Carlo had no pretensions. But he set out to learn a few. And what better place to learn them than at Harvard, with...
...hero in his own country. While abroad, he began a strange flirtation with Nazi Germany. In a series of visits at the invitation of Hermann Goring, he was dined, toasted, decorated with the Service Cross of the German Eagle and led on carefully planned inspection tours of German aircraft factories. As Goring hoped, Lindbergh came away persuaded that Germany's air superiority was overwhelming...
...horses' asses." Lindbergh became the most glamorous evangelist of "America first." Roosevelt compared him to a "copperhead." Lindbergh resigned from the Army Air Corps Reserve, and after Pearl Harbor, F.D.R. refused to take him back. Instead, Lindbergh became a technical consultant for Ford and later for United Aircraft. By 1944, he finagled his way to the Pacific as a consultant and, though a civilian, managed to fly 50 combat missions. On one of them, he shot down a Japanese plane...