Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week Air Force Colonel Dixon J. Arnold, commander of the 53rd Troop Carrier Squadron, issued a flat order: plant the pine trees. Two thousand miles from New Zealand, by the next Douglas Globemaster, came 25 pine trees, four to six feet tall. Yielding gracefully, Navy ground crews planted 24 of them the way the Air Force wanted-even though there had never before been a pine tree in all Antarctica. To add insult to this interservice triumph, the airmen posted a sign showing Smokey the Bear pointing at the snow and a 25th tree. Beneath him was the legend...
...Three Ideas." The talks began on the subject of Anglo-American scientific sharing. "Harold," said the President, "you know I cruised briefly last summer on our newest aircraft carrier, the Saratoga. And I found myself particularly interested in three things-the angled deck, the mirror landing system and the steam catapult. The angled deck and catapult have made our carriers much more effective, and the landing system has saved lives of our men. I found also that all three of them were British ideas, British inventions." Macmillan was more than willing to agree on the mutual benefits of scientific cooperation...
...conspicuous rocket carrier, now seen by millions, started behind Sputnik. Having more air resistance and therefore dropping sooner to a lower, faster orbit, it quickly passed the satellite. Now it is leading by 63 minutes and is revolving around the earth in 94.68 minutes. Dr. Fred Whipple of the Smithsonian Observatory expects the rocket to have a good many more days in space, perhaps 30 or 40. Then it will make its fiery death-plunge into denser...
...simplicity: the Army's domain was the land, the Navy's the sea, the Air Force's the air. Missiles upset this neat and workable pattern. To Army eyes, missiles are essentially artillery. The Air Force considers them unmanned planes. Navymen see them as modifications of carrier planes and battleship guns. Fearing loss of missions, prestige and even existence, the three services have scrambled fiercely for shares of the missile field. Result: three missile programs that duplicate and even triplicate each other's hardware, compete for scientific brainpower and even keep technological secrets from each other...
...second successive year the junior ball carrier received the separation in the right shoulder playing the same team, Harvard...