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...apron of its Bethpage, L.I. flying field, Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. last week showed off its newest Navy plane, the 52F-I, a submarine killer. The 52F-I, powered by two Wright 1,450-h.p. piston engines, looks like a lumpy cigar and is built for range, not speed. But it is probably crammed with more electronic gear than any other U.S. warplane; its search equipment can locate a completely submerged submarine by picking up the sub's magnetic field. And when it finds a sub, it has a type of guided missile to blast...
...another North African base, a roller broke through a new parking apron, causing $2,000,000 damage. A civilian architect-engineer had warned U.S. officers that faulty materials were being used and specifications ignored, but he was snubbed...
...pretty good job has been done. A wage premium was necessary to recruit men for the Arctic Greenland job, where the work was hazardous and hardly anyone had ever been before. A heavy rain before the blacktop surface was laid caused the roller to go through the Morocco base apron. "It's just like the man who cuts his hay in the afternoon and hopes it doesn't rain," explained the general...
...grew into a tall, slim man with tight-set lips. He wore a carnation in his buttonhole and a high choker collar under his laboratory apron. He showed no great interest in food, drink or money, but he smoked 50 cigarettes a day. His small sense of humor was strictly professional. "His family still possesses [a human] thighbone .. . tied with ribbon and given as a Christmas present...
...126th's communications office operates in the only usable portion of a sag-roofed shack set amidst girders of a bombed-out hangar. Most of the wing's 48 B-26 bombers are bunched like sitting ducks on a tiny concrete apron before the hangar. One or two, not finding room on the apron, squat dismally on the open field, so deep in mire that even their propeller tips are stuck fast. Theoretically, there is a large, revetted parking area available for the planes-but a French farmer has built a solid house and two barns right...