Word: belle
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entire project is being directed by Dean Edward S. Mason of the School of Public Administration and his chief aide, David E. Bell, a former economic adviser to ex-President Truman. It calls for a group of six economists, one engineer, and one expert in pubic administration to spend a period of 18 months in Pakistan on a full time basis teaching the Pakistanis how best to spend their money and furnishing technical information to them...
CONVERTIPLANE, a cross between a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane, is taking shape at Bell Aircraft's Fort Worth plant under a joint Army-Air Force contract. The new aircraft will have propellers that tilt horizontally to lift it straight up like a helicopter, then tilt forward to pull the plane ahead at 150 m.p.h...
...start. The career they are really interested in is marriage. "By the time you have spent a lot of time and money training them for executive jobs," says a Seattle department-store man, "some guy grabs them off, or they get pregnant, or something." Says Charles Percy, president of Bell & Howell (cameras): "Sometimes they permit themselves to be distracted by husbands and families. This is hard for businessmen to understand, since no man ever takes more than a day away from work to have a baby." But, complain a lot of businessmen, while the married women are too busy with...
...Brothers twirled their first pusher propeller, the Air Force's Major Charles E. ("Chuck") Yeager, 30, attained the highest known speed ever to be reached by pilot and plane. His rocket-powered aircraft (released from a B-29 bomber at 30,000 ft. for the run): the experimental Bell XIA, a new relative of the XI, with which Chuck Yeager first cracked the sound barrier in level flight (TIME, April 18, 1949). His speed: more than 1,600 m.p.h., 2½ times the speed of sound...
GUIDED missiles in the U.S. are ten years behind the rest of the world, says Lieut. General William E. Kepner, a World War II air commander and now executive vice president of Bell Aircraft Corp. "The designs for our guided-missile systems were on German drafting boards at least ten years ago. They have also been on Russian drafting boards. We are hurrying to catch up, and I hope...