Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force KC-135 jet tanker that crashed at Massachusetts' Westover Air Base last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) took with it James Lukens McConaughy Jr., 42, chief of TIME-LIFE Washington Bureau since August, 1957, one of the most respected correspondents in the capital...
WESTOVER AIR FORCE BASE, MASS., FRIDAY JUNE 27-(UPl) THE FIRST...
After a day's liberty in Guantánamo city, eleven uniformed, unarmed U.S. marines and 17 equally inoffensive U.S. sailors climbed aboard their chartered bus one night last week for the 15-mile ride back to the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay. The Cuban driver swung out of town, and the bus bucketed along the narrow muddy road. Suddenly the headlights picked up a band of armed men. Guerrilla fighters in Cuban Rebel Chieftain Fidel Castro's 19-month-old uprising against Dictator Fulgencio Batista, they climbed aboard the bus and ordered the driver...
That night, as the Navy began a search for the missing bus, another sailor was grabbed just outside the base. At the same time, across the island at the northern edge of the Sierra del Cristal, U.S. Consul Park Wollam set off into the hills with a pair of Cuban guides. His mission: negotiating the release of ten U.S. and two Canadian executives and engineers kidnaped by Raúl Castro's men two days earlier from the village of Moa, site of a $75 million nickel-processing plant under construction for Freeport Sulphur Co. (TIME...
...original building was occupied; so was the solid-fuel engineering building. Entire new divisions were formed, and flourished. Example: Aerojet's Architect-Engineering Division, formed in 1947 to serve specialized needs, was called upon to serve as structural engineer for the rocket test station at Edwards Air Force Base on a $2,000,000 contract. It went on to a similar job at the Navy's missile test station at Point Mugu, Calif., the Army's Redstone Arsenal, Martin Co.'s Denver plant...