Word: cannoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...also because it now had more funds,
the Air Force last week rejuggled its command to give its stepchild
Tactical Air Command equal status with Strategic Air Command
(long-range bombers). Under the new setup, TAG will be commanded by
able, pugnacious Lieut. General John K. ("Uncle Joe") Cannon, 58, one
of the Air Corps' oldtime hell-for-leather pilots,
...Cannon. His slingshot now grown into a big gun, David will pound the Communists daily over the government radio. He has a staff of researchers who cull the Communist press, mail lies and distortions they uncover to every non-Communist editor in France through their bulletin Defend the Truth...
...single-seat jet fighter mounting four 20-millimeter cannon was undergoing new tests in Argentina last week, after whistling through a first trial flight clocked at a speed of 646 miles per hour. The swept-wing I.Ae. 33 Púlqui II, powered by a Rolls-Royce turbojet engine, is the second jet plane to be designed and built in Argentina. The designer: Professor Kurt Tank, former technical director of Germany's Focke-Wulf concern and designer of the formidable...
Although Osborne, who covered some of World War II in Europe, did not go to the Far East to cover the Korean war, he did spend some time at the front. On one occasion he managed to get a ride back to headquarters in a jeep. Jimmy Cannon, of the New York Post, and another correspondent also asked for a lift. Cannon, wise to the fact that a jeep's only comfortable seat is the front one, announced that it should go to the oldest man present. Whereupon, he gave his age (41) and dove for the seat. Under...
Last week, amid clouds of red smoke, Mitchell's shots were still echoing on the Danube. According to the Budapest trade union daily Nepszava, "Composer" Howard Mitchell had provided "rhapsodic variations" for 16 cannon and orchestra at the urgent request of "Minister of War" Louis Johnson, who wanted some "martial and blood-stirring" music to honor U.S. armed forces...