Word: barrelers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...going on jets. Russia's designers had proved that they could build conventional planes; now with German help they proved that they could build first-rate jets. In 1947, the first really topnotch Russian fighter, the jet MIG-15, appeared. It had a high rooster-like tail, a barrel-like fuselage, and an ancient radio antenna jutting out into the slip stream. But it had swept-back wings, quick visual proof that the Russians and their German experts had been delving deep into transsonic research. It was light and maneuverable and powered by the best existing jet engine...
...William Hill was Niagara's best-known riverman, a veteran of three rides through the rapids below the falls in a barrel. He was credited with recovering 177 bodies cast up by the river. Before he died in 1942, he told his son William Jr.: "Look after the river, Red." Red Hill worked at odd jobs, did some tourist guiding, shot the rapids himself in 1945 and 1948, gradually developed an irresistible hankering to go over the falls from the top. If he did it and lived, he would be the fourth person in history to accomplish the feat...
...shut off from the West, 19 U.S. oil companies last week got Government blessing to set up an international pool. By using each other's pipelines, storage facilities and tankers, thus eliminating wasteful duplications, they hoped to gain enough production to make up half of the 600,000-barrel daily production lost in Iran...
...grown boy, John Trenchard, who gets caught up among desperadoes-smugglers, in this case, on England's Dorsetshire coast. Like Stevenson's Jim Hawkins, young Johnnie first learns the true measure of the lawlessness in his vicinity while lying in concealment-not in a sweet-smelling apple barrel, but in the fust of an old crypt, with a corpse grinning at his elbow...
...that area under the Pick-Sloan Plan. But that was not done because there was local opposition to using large areas of farm land for reservoirs, differences of opinion on how the job should be administered, people who thought the plan too ambitious and too full of pork barrel. Said General Pick: Let's get going...