Word: belled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last week six top aircraft executives of the East-including Guy Vaughan of Curtiss-Wright, Glenn Martin of Martin, Larry Bell of Bell Aircraft-packed their bags and entrained for California. They went West to meet Pacific Coast producers and set up a new National Air craft War Production Council. Aim: to help cut production red tape for the whole airplane industry...
...greying, 38-year-old Frank F. Russell, who went from Yale ('26) to Wall Street, in 1939 became president of National Aviation Corp., a low-earning, almost static investment trust. His big job since the war has been to act as liaison man and trouble shooter for Bell, Lockheed and half a dozen other concerns of which he is director. His assets: geniality, toughness, a precise, realistic knowledge of almost every factory floor in the industry...
Here are a few addenda, before that old bell rings.... The uniform situation is very much ravelled at the moment. Should we buy anchor shoulder boards for our summer uniforms, and sell them to the next class? What hats can we wear with whites as Midshipmen? Can we wear whites as Midshipmen? For graduation, though, you'd better have an officer's visor cap, white cover, insignia, et al, and white shoes. Black shoes are required with khakis on and off the station. Tune in next week for answers...
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Shot on July 2, 1881, Garfield died 78 days later, because his doctors, headed by his boyhood friend, Dr. D. W. Bliss, could not locate the assassin's bullet in his abdomen. By using an electromagnet, Telephonist Alexander Graham Bell had figured out the general location of the bullet (see cut), but no operation was performed. A more accurate guess (through deduction) by Anatomist Feneuil Dunkin Weisse was also disregarded, but later proved by autopsy. A wag cracked: "When ignorance is Bliss, 'tis folly to be Weisse." Two Points. Even though X-ray has long been...