Word: bell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bell Helicopter...
...according to testimony released last week by a Senate investigating committee, Anderson did not learn his lesson. This time he was criticizing the civilian Pentagon's award of an $18 million contract to Bell Aerosystems Co. to build a plane (the X-22) that can take off and land almost vertically. The odd-shaped craft will have a 39-ft. rear wing, stubby forward wings and four 7-ft.-diameter propeller ducts that can be directed at the ground for vertical thrust. When horizontal, they will help push the plane to 350 m.p.h...
...defending the decision, Deputy Defense Secretary Roswell Gilpatric told the committee that it was based primarily upon his belief that Bell had greater experience in developing this type of aircraft. He said that he understood that the technical experts found both designs acceptable, but admitted that he made his decision before reading all of the evaluations, was unaware that the Navy's Bureau of Weapons termed the Douglas proposal "a clear choice...
John Robinson Pierce, director of research in communications principles, Bell Telephone Laboratories, originator of Telstar . . . Sc.D...
...Shaped Room. The plot may be soap-operatic, but sensitive direction and good performances by luminous Leslie Caron, hawk-faced Tom Bell and oldtime Vaudevillian Cicely Courtneidge help to make this story about love, loneliness and unwed motherhood more than worthwhile...