Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then a serious nervous shake-up forced Mr. Forrestal to resign, and Louis A. Johnson, with a reputedly pro-Army background, took over. The Air Force promptly renewed the fight, claiming that the big carrier, scheduled to be laid down in early April, was superfluous and eminently vulnerable. The airmen said the cost of the ship was too high for its usefulness, that it was an infringement on their "rightful control of strategic bombing." The Navy fought back, citing the fine record of its carriers in the World War II Pacific campaigns. Then the Air Force appeared with its trump...
This was simply a compilation of a series of classified-secret tests run off early this year between the huge now B-36 and various service model jet-fighters. The B-36, a six-engined, 5000-mile range heavy bomber, was the Air Force's big bid for strategic bombing supremacy; as such, it had come in for lots of criticism. It was too slow, too big; it could not maneuver. At one time there was a serious move to halve the B-36 contracts. This was squelched when the Air Force appeared happily bearing the results of its tests...
...Crimson varsity defeated Cornell by 10 seconds in winning the Eastern Sprint championships two weeks ago, but the loss of both Curwen and Iselin makes chances for repeating this feat precarious indeed. The jayvee boat, which also won its sprint race, did not have to face the Big Red, which was eliminated in the preliminary trails, but will undoubtedly have a tough time this week...
...Olivet Policy" had come to be known in some circles as "radical," "screw ball," and the chairman of the Board of Trustees claimed that its critique of "big business" discouraged endowments...
These two problems, of course, are vastly complex, and solution to them cannot be reached except by protracted negotiations. Today's Big Four meeting, however, gives both sides the opportunity to start such bargaining. The current atmosphere of charge and counter-charge is hardly auspicious, especially when it appears on official levels--both in this country and in the Soviet Union--but should the Foreign Ministers deal with each other honestly over the conference table, not only Germany and Europe but the entire world would be a safer place in which to live...