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...wings, were the first fighters to exceed 400 m.p.h.; during World War II they splashed a total of 2,140 enemy aircraft, v. a Corsair loss of but 189. With its Corsair mission completed, Chance Vought will now concentrate most of its production on the jet-powered F-7U Cutlass, a Navy fighter in the 650-m.p.h. class...
...lieutenant's favor: the Chesapeake was fresh from refitting, manned by a green crew. Just before she sailed out to meet the Shannon, many of her men were drunk. The court-martial testimony showed that Cox, who was 23, fought his guns bravely until the crews deserted; then, cutlass in hand, he rushed up on deck to repel the boarders. Cox probably did not realize he was in command when he helped Captain Lawrence below deck...
...Sharpest cutlass on the (Holy Cross) guard squad is weilded by Chet Millett, a star on the rise, who leads his drop-out plays like a swooshing torpedo. --From the 1951 Football Annual
...CHANCE VOUGHT, which moved to Dallas three years ago, is now producing the tailless, swept-wing jet Cutlass. Vought also is working on flying missiles. ¶HAMILTON STANDARD will shortly quit its plant adjoining Pratt & Whitney for a new $12 million plant at Windsor Locks, Conn. Its postwar hydromatic propellers have made such advances in airline safety that they are now specified on 90% of all U.S. transports in service or on order. In the belief that turboprops will be used on commercial planes before pure-jets, Hamilton Standard is perfecting supersonic and dual-rotating propellers for use with them...
...Noiseless as spectres, Delano and the two maidens slid into the [ruffians' den]; and the young lieutenant . . . instantly singled out the chief from among his sleeping comrades, and with one fierce thrust, sent his cutlass directly through his body, and with such force, that the keen weapon was deeply sunk in the floor." The climax of The Signal; or, The King of the Blue Isle, by E. Curtiss Hine, was at hand. When Delano had finished his bloody work, "three hundred corpses lay strewn about the room...