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...miles this year, and two staffers traveled faster than sound. The speed dash was done by Bureau Chief Jim Shepley and Pentagon Reporter Clay Blair over Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, each riding in a Lockheed F-94C. At 40,000 ft., the pilots went into a power dive. They broke through the sonic barrier, then pulled out of the dive...
...above Bretigny airport outside Paris, Mme. Jacqueline Auriol, 36, spirited daughter-in-law of French President Vincent Auriol, nosed a Mystere II French jet fighter into a near-vertical dive, cracked the sound barrier at 687.5 m.p.h. to become the world's second woman (after U.S. Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran) to outrun sound. Acclaimed as tine gaillarde (a bold one) by her male colleagues, she reportedly was just warming up for an assault on the women's regulation-course record (652.552 m.p.h.) taken from her last May by Flyer Cochran...
...three times the net profit after taxes; the plant plus $10 to $20 for each subscriber; gross receipts plus 20% for good will. But even when they apply any or all of the formulas, brokers like Washington's Allan Kander admit that after they get the result, they "dive for a crystal ball." And the formulas cannot account for the huge increase in values represented by some of the sales that have taken place. In California's San Bernardino County, the publisher of a semiweekly, which he bought for $85,000 in 1949, had five bids to pick...
...Hitler enter Paris, in all was captured three times, escaped three times. Once, posing as an Irish patriot, he was challenged to speak Gaelic, fooled the Germans by a flood of Urdu, which he had learned in India. Back in combat, Embry took on a series of missions, once dive-bombed the door of a Nazi headquarters in Copenhagen to free imprisoned Danish resistance leaders...
...American to build Curtiss P-40s Kindelberger answered that he could design and produce a better airplane quicker. In 127 days, he turned out the P-51, the first of the famed Mustangs. The U.S. was cool towards it, would place no orders. Since the services were looking for dive bombers, Kindelberger pulled another quick switch: "We told them the P-51 was a dive bomber, not a fighter, and got an order for 500 of them in the same mail with a letter that said 'We don't want any.' " Thus, thanks to British orders...