Word: crashingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crashes, less than 100 miles apart in Texas and New Mexico, last week put the spotlight on a military plane that the Pentagon tries not to talk about. The plane: the Lockheed U2. Its mission: high-altitude reconnaissance. The U-2s, flying out of Laughlin A.F.B. near Del Rio, Texas on separate missions, crashed within a 24-hour period, killing their pilots. Air police rushed in, set up roadblocks to screen both crash sites from view. The Air Force ruled out sabotage, tersely ordered the grounding of some 25 sister ships, and clammed...
...Western Europe in general, the forecast is a slackening of expansion, but no crash...
...spending enough money on lifesaving medical research? Could such killing and crippling diseases as cancer, heart disorders, arthritis and mental illness be brought under swift control by a crash program like World War II's Manhattan Project? What should be the Federal Government's share in financing research? Informed answers to these questions-literally, matters of life and death for millions-came this week from a committee set up a year ago by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
...recent Air Force disasters, the crash of the KC-135 puzzled investigators most. In the nearly two years it has been in operation, the big (more than 250,000 Ibs., full loaded) jet tanker has met and passed every performance requirement set down for it, broken longstanding flight records, never been in a major accident. This kind of performance encouraged Boeing in its plans to produce a commercial version of the KC-135 (some of which will be in operation by major airlines by the end of the year), and encouraged the Air Force's Special Air Missions squadron...
...Robert Ginsburgh, 63, retired Air Force brigadier general turned chief military reporter for U.S. News & World Report; in the crash of a KC-135 Strato-tanker near Massachusetts' Westover Air Force Base (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...