Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last fall Minnie hired a new clerk, Esther Marie Cannon, who, as it turned out, was an experienced bookkeeper. Some of Minnie's accounting methods struck Esther as odd. and in November she openly expressed her doubts. Minnie fired her on the spot, but the damage was done. Shortly before Christmas, a team of federal auditors descended on Minnie's office, and after one horrified look at her books, decided that Commonwealth might be short as much...
...m.p.h. with its Pratt & Whitney J57 engine and afterburner going full blast. The F-100 can fly and fight effectively at 50,000 ft. (10,000 ft. higher than the F-86), and packs an array of 2.75-in. rockets and radar-sighted 20-mm. cannon which fire so fast a burst sounds like the high toot of a diesel locomotive. Cost of an F-100: $640,000, nearly three times more than...
...Lockheed's F-104, the fastest of the new planes. Pilots call it "a saddle strapped on an engine with a 20-mm. cannon." Pencil-slim, with straight, stubby eight-foot wings, it combines relatively light weight (17,000 lbs.) with a big General Electric J-79 engine. The F-104 will do an estimated Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight...
Manchester Snow Valley is excellent; Middlebury and Stowe's Mansfield and Spruce Peak are judged good to excellent; and Manchester's Big Bromley is good. At Franconia, Mittersill is excellent and the slope of Cannon Mountain is good to excellent. North Conway's Cranmore reports fair to good conditions...
Stowe, Mt. Mansfield and Spruce Peak report excellent; Manchester's Big Bromley the same; Franconia, Cannon Mt., good to excellent; Mittersill, excellent. North Conway reports good and Middlebury excellent...