Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...described in terms of its theatrical ancestry. Certainly author Paul Vincent Carroll owes something to the Faust legend, since his comic-fantasy is based on the time-worn duel between heaven and hell for another eligible soul. The owner of the soul, however, is a simple Irish priest, Cannon Daniel McCooey, whose origins could no doubt be traced to Going...
...conditions for those with exam breaks are as follows: New Hampshire: Franconia, Cannon, 5 to 40, 2 powder, cloudy, good to excellent; Franconia, Mittersill, 7 to 25, 3 powder, clear, excellent; Intervale, 7 to 15, 2 powder, clear, good; Jackson, Thorn Mt., 5 to 15, 2 powder, clear, fair to good; Mount Sunapse, 4 to 10, 1 powder, partly cloudy, fair to good; North Conway, Cranmore, 7 to 15, 2 powder, clear, fair to good...
Died. General John Kenneth ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 62, board chairman of Fletcher Aviation Corp., retired veteran of 32 years' service with the Air Force, postwar commanding general of U.S. Air Forces in Europe; of a heart attack; in Arcadia, Calif. Trainer of hundreds of military pilots (among his pupils: Generals Nathan F. Twining, Hoyt Vandenberg, Curtis E. LeMay), four-star Uncle Joe won renown as one of World War II's great tactical airmen; devised "Operation Strangle," which severed Nazi rail transport to central Italy in preparation for the push on Rome...
...SPOTTING PLANES are in the works for the U.S. Army. The artillery, which now flies 130-m.p.h. spotters, wants a small plane fast enough to escape the radio-active blast from its long-range atomic cannon, and has asked several planemakers if they could handle a production order for such a plane. Leading candidate: Cessna's new, 400-m.p.h., T-37 twin-jet trainer (TIME, Aug. 9), now being produced for the Air Force...
...plants, bottling plants, all equipped with Vickers machinery. He tours the suburbs on a Vickers electrified train. Going home again, he boards a Vickers airliner on an airfield carved out by Vickers tractors and earth movers. And this is only half the business. For defense, Vickers also makes shells, cannon and 50-ton Centurion tanks, battleships (the 44,460-ton King George V), carriers (the 31,790-ton Illustrious), destroyers, a new type sub that runs on hydrogen peroxide, jet fighters and bombers for the R.A.F...