Word: clouded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were certain that no Russian test could be blamed for it, and the only other recent tests had been in Nevada, two weeks before and 5,500 miles away in the wrong direction. Since air is not known to cross the North Pacific from east to west, the labeled cloud could not have come direct from Nevada. The only other possibility was that it had traveled three quarters of the way around the earth to reach Japan...
...William Bynum, 53, moved up from executive vice president to president of Carrier Corp., maker of air-conditioning and refrigerating equipment. He succeeds Cloud Wampler, 60, who becomes board chairman and continues as chief executive officer. Bynum, an engineer from Alabama Polytechnic, joined Carrier in 1930, drifted from engineering to sales, was made general sales manager in 1948, executive vice president three years later...
...Paris physician, studied at France's top technical schools. He sold his first propeller design to the War Ministry, and set up a small aircraft factory. Even after France nationalized its aviation industry in 1936, he was permitted to keep a small plant at Saint-Cloud, where he turned out variable-pitch propellers until France fell in World War II. Because he was a Jew and refused to make aircraft parts for the Nazis, he was arrested and eventually taken to Buchenwald...
Broken in health by 1945, Dassault nevertheless returned to Saint-Cloud to rebuild his factory (the aviation industry was then partially denationalized). With Marshall Plan aid he set up a modern plant. In two years he turned out 300 twin-engine Flamant passenger planes for the French air force and navy. Next he turned out the Ouragan (hurricane) jet fighter, landed a French air force order for 350, and began building the first of five new factories. When he brought out the Mystère (TIME, March 17, 1952), U.S. Air Force officers classed it with...
DESEGREGATION, integration-call it what you will-hangs like a dark cloud over the South, and no editor can dare ignore it as a major editorial problem. Unfortunately, even tragically, the supreme court decision has set in motion some of the evil forces and evil actions which are too reminiscent of our dark est days. Councils have sprung up throughout the South that are, despite the feelings of their respectable sponsors, nothing more than uptown Ku Klux Klans, using instead of tar and feathers and the lash the equally destructive economic pressure. They say they are dedicated to the idea...