Word: allisons
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Married. Roy Allison Roberts, 67, president of the Kansas City Star Co. and editor and general manager of the Star, early backer of Eisenhower as a candidate for President; and Mrs. Florence G. Ross, 61, widow of Charles G. Ross, White House press secretary under President Harry Truman; both for the second time; in Washington...
COMMERCIAL TURBOPROP engine will soon be out on the market for U.S. civilian planes by the Allison division of General Motors. It is the 3,750-h.p. T56 military turboprop now being used to power Lockheed's prototype C-130 troop transport...
...ouster stirred up a storm. From Tokyo U.S. Ambassador John Allison cabled a protest. Author James Michener (Tales of the South Pacific, Sayonara) wrote in a letter to the New York Times: "It is precisely as if Richard Nixon and Adlai Stevenson were to be charged with subversion. Mr. Ladejinsky is known throughout Asia as Communism's most implacable foe and about the only American who has accomplished much in actually stopping the drift of all Asian farmers to Communism. To fire him for security reasons is truly incredible...
...FLYING BOAT, the Martin XP6M Seamaster, will give the Navy its first water-based, long-range strategic jet bomber next spring. The new plane, under construction at Baltimore, will have an internal bomb bay built into the hull, will be powered by four Allison J71 engines buried in the wing, and probably have enough speed (600-plus m.p.h.) to outrun the Air Force...
Standing nose up on its delta-wing tips and four castered wheels, the Pogo resembles an outsize badminton bird. Test Pilot Skeets Coleman started the 5,500-h.p. Allison turboprop engine, and the two counterrotating propellers slowly lifted the plane up to 175 ft. Then, still hanging on its propellers, Pogo nosed over; as it began to pick up speed, it also began to pick up lift from its stubby wings, soon was sailing along in conventional level flight. After two 280-m.p.h. sweeps over the field, Pilot Coleman raised Pogo's nose, hovered like a helicopter over...