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...airplanes and twenty members of the Flying Club will take off from Bedford Airport this weekend, bound for Martha's Vineyard to meet fellow pilot of the Brown Flying Club with a supersonic beer party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flying Club's Versatile Men Make History | 11/1/1951 | See Source »

...Flying Club uses Bedford Airport as a base, piloting mostly Avoids and Widgeons. One of the members is a licensed helicopter pilot and often files either of the two $25,000 helicopters at Bedford. Another pilot commutes to Wisconsin on Vacations; he claims that it's cheaper than going by train...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Flying Club's Versatile Men Make History | 11/1/1951 | See Source »

Hastings William Sackville Russell, twelfth Duke of Bedford, a pamphleteering pacifist and animal lover who once had a private zoo for a hobby and became an expert on the mating habits of spiders, announced from his home in Woburn, England that he has developed a strain of homing parrots. They fly free during the day, he said, but return home at night to eat, sleep and breed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Oct. 15, 1951 | 10/15/1951 | See Source »

...head of the shipyards Clay Bedford hit on the idea of building ships in prefabricated sections. At war's end, Bedford went to Willow Run as Kaiser-Frazer's production chief, soon became known as a brilliant "swap guy," chasing all over the U.S. for scarce materials to keep K-F's production lines rolling. When Wilson tapped him for the Office of Defense Mobilization, Bedford had just spent his first night in a new home in Oakland, Calif., where he was to manage K-F's West Coast defense production...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Troubleshooter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

Last week Charlie Wilson swore Bedford in as head of the Production Executive Committee, gave him power to ride herd on the whole defense program. A few hours later, Bedford took off on a tour of West Coast aircraft and ordnance plants, hunting new bottlenecks to unclog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PRODUCTION: Troubleshooter | 9/3/1951 | See Source »

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