Word: combatting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When ROTC was offered to private colleges in 1919, President A. Lawrence Lowell requested an Artillery unit because he wanted Harvard to have a "combat branch." Dupuy is the 14th professor of Military Science and Tactics to head the unit here...
...bronchial pneumonia, and still ill, when he got the news of Geneva's failure to reunify Germany. He summoned military aides and ministers to his home and told them to get moving on the formation of Wrest Germany's new armed forces. Adenauer's demand: four combat divisions in the field...
...against a Labor censure motion condemning him for "incompetence and neglect." The week before, Butler had been scourged by Labor's ambitious Hugh Gaitskell, a former Chancellor himself, who demanded that Butler resign (TIME, Nov. 7). Now Butler set out to defend his emergency tax-raising budget to combat British inflation. He not only admitted that his tax increases would hurt but made a virtue of it ("I do not expect them to be popular"). Then Butler turned sarcastically to the charge of incompetence. "Socialists," he said, "are connoisseurs of incompetence. Let us look at some of the vintage...
Would the Westinghouse 340-22 jet engine, originally intended for the 22,000-Ib. plane, serve a 29.000-lb. plane in combat flying? It would not, and in April 1952 McDonnell fired off a letter to Washington warning that the result would be a "disappointingly underpowered combination." He asked for a substitute engine. But none was yet ready, and the Navy could not wait. It took a gamble, put the J40-22 power plant into the heavier plane to serve as an "interim engine" while it urged Westinghouse to speed a more powerful version...
...interim" became the permanent engine. On the stand. W. W. Smith, Westinghouse's aviation gas turbine chief, frankly admitted: "We underestimated the magnitude of the task . . . This engine program moved slowly." Finally, the Navy canceled the Westinghouse contract, and none of the underpowered Demons ever saw combat...