Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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GENERAL MANAGFR BELL AIRCRAFT CORP...
WOULD APPRECIATE CORRECTION OF AN ERROR IN DEC. 6 ISSUE, WHICH STATED: "EVEN ON THE DAY LAST WEEK WHEN THE DOW-JONES AVERAGE ROSE THE MOST, ALMOST HALF OF THE 1,271 STOCKS TRADED SHOWED LOSSES, AND A FEW, E.G., BELL AIRCRAFT . . . REGISTERED LOWS FOR THE YEAR." YOU MISSED THE FACT THAT BELL AIRCRAFT CORPORATION SPLIT ITS STOCK TWO-FOR-ONE ON NOV. 3, AND THE LOW FOR THE YEAR, ADJUSTED FOR THE STOCK...
...designing and building a jet airplane?" He replied, "Nothing much-does anyone?" "Well, Ben," said General Arnold, "you'd better find out. I've decided to put you in charge of the job." Chidlaw pioneered in developing America's first jet (the P-59, with a Bell air frame and General Electric engine). He was given a year to do the job; in less than 13 months the first jet was flying. He became one of the first U.S. airmen to fly a jet himself...
...Chidlaw's desk are three phones, colored red, white and black, for direct lines to his units, SAC headquarters and the Pentagon. His command is one of the Bell System's biggest customers (phone bill: some $22 million last year). In one recent test an air general at the Colorado headquarters picked up a hot phone to call Pentagon Command Post. In exactly three seconds came the reply from Washington: "Pentagon Command Post." "This is a communications check," the general said. "Please disregard." Canada headquarters answered in 5 seconds, Newfoundland in 10, Alaska in 15. (For some pictures...
Begun as a sport by aristocrats in the 17th century, scientific bell ringing fell into disrepute during Georgian times because it raises a great thirst in a man, and ringers went oftener from the belfry to the pothouse than to the church. But now, change ringing is having a revival, sparked by the interest of mathematicians and scientists.* Last week England was agitated by some big bell news: the attempt by eight veteran bell ringers in the Midlands factory town of Loughborough to set a modern change-ringing record...