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...aircraft cancellations came after Senator Styles Bridges' hearings had brought out that K-F needed $1.3 million to build a Boxcar that Fairchild itself is building for only $260,000 each (TIME, June 15). The Air Force denied that this caused the cancellation, but nobody believed it. The Air Force, fighting to restore some of the cuts in its 1954 budget, obviously wanted to drop an operation criticized as wasteful. Henry Kaiser and Edgar had done their best, before the hearings broke up. to acquit K-F of this charge. In a 22-page prepared statement...
When New Hampshire's sharp-tongued Senator Styles Bridges charged last November that the Air Force was paying Kaiser-Frazer $1.2 million apiece for the same C-119 Flying Boxcar that Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. made for $260,000, K-F's President Edgar Kaiser cried foul. He took newspaper ads in ten cities to answer the charges of K-F's inefficiency (TIME, Nov. 24) and invited a congressional investigation. Last week...
...Boxcars to Breakfast. At 4 a.m. the floor was cleared for more dancing-much more enthusiastic dancing than at the gym-and at 5 o'clock the party moved to the depot for a train "trip to the Orient" (Orient being a hamlet twelve miles away). The orchestra hit it up in a boxcar between two coaches, and the boys & girls who were too weary to dance either necked or threw confetti out the windows on the sleeping countryside. Two hours later, as the train clattered back into Creston, past the water tower, the band broke into Auld Lang...
Father O'Connor has a good reporter's sharp eye for detail, lets the religious notes sound where they belong. In the early months of the Korean war, riding north to cover a combat jump with a Flying Boxcar of paratroopers, he heard confessions on the way to the target, blessed the men as they went out the door. "With marvelous precision," Father O'Connor ended his story, "our flight lands, each wide-winged plane seconds apart from the next on a sunny, peaceful field. We are hundreds of miles from where we saw men drop...
Author Liu and 31 others were crammed into half a boxcar, .while an established Red journalist had the other half to him self. When they complained, they were told that "suffering is the diet of the hero...