Word: bombers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Peering benevolently over the tops of his reading glasses, Georgia's canny Representative Carl Vinson clapped down his gavel and brought the proceedings to order. His Armed Services Committee had met to consider grave charges: that the Air Forces' controversial B-36 bomber, the nation's prime strategic weapon,,was a product of political finagling and outright crooked practices in high places...
Died. Humphrey Verdon Roe, 71, pioneer British aviator and co-founder of A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd. (manufacturers of Britain's World War II Lancaster bomber), husband of popular sexologist Dr. Marie Carmichael (Married Love) Stopes; after long illness; in London...
...Lattre and the defense ministers, however, are proceeding on the assumption that naval and bomber strength are primarily a U.S., not a Western Union, responsibility...
...bigger output of equipment for land armies and army-support aviation, as opposed to naval and long-range bomber construction...
...Secretary W. Stuart Symington, under whose regime the B-36 had been developed (by better power plants, etc.) from a slow but long-range aircraft into the fastest, longest-ranged, high-altitude bomber the air arm has ever owned. Van Zandt implied that there was some kind of skulduggery behind the Air Force's decision to concentrate on the B-36. He also implied that there was a plot afoot by Consolidated to absorb its unsuccessful competitors (for airplane contracts) and that, after that, Symington would resign to become boss of the great combine. Symington ridiculed the charge. Said...