Word: bailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Trial by jury," he said slowly, "is one of the sacred guarantees of the Constitution." Bryant and Milam lit big cigars while the whites of Tallahatchie County cheered. But the two men were not released. They face kidnaping charges in Leflore County and were jailed there, awaiting bail...
...without telling the press, came ashore at Minot's Light, North Scituate, only half a mile from his starting point. When his mother finally reported him safe just as his wife reported him missing, the police picked him up on his brother-in-law's charge and secured $100 bail...
...majority of crackups. He has presented his proof with argument-killing logic: his own roaring rides. Having established the practical limits of human tolerance to g forces,† he is getting ready to prove his carefully calculated theory that a jet pilot can stand the wind blast of a bail-out at Mach 3 at 40,000 ft. (about 2,000 m.p.h.), provided he is properly helmeted and harnessed tightly to an ejection seat...
...will be used mainly to explore the effects of high speed and air friction on the metals used in aircraft building. In an emergency the capsule-enclosed cockpit can be ejected from the new plane; after it falls by parachute to a safe altitude, the pilot can bail out as if from any more conventional craft and float to earth with his own chute. With the X-2 flying in the air perhaps as fast as 2,250 m.p.h., the old X-1A will probably never be missed...
...market, Curtis' venerable (102-year-old) Country Gentleman has been stumbling. "The magazine," says one competitor, "has become a sort of a Mother Hubbard, covering everything and touching nothing.'' Since its peak war years, Country Gentleman has been gradually losing advertising. Curtis started to try to bail out the sick monthly last year by changing its name to Better Farming, but the transformation had barely started when along came the offer from Farm Journal...