Word: dogfighter
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...Japanese book about World War II that was not a tale of defeat, I-58 sold 100,000 copies, has been followed by a spate of similar war books as well as a monthly magazine called Maru. Almost entirely devoted to eyewitness accounts of World War II actions, e.g., "Dogfight over Rabaul." Maru has become the bible of many a Japanese teenager. Wrote one young reader: "I felt an inexplicable satisfaction when I learned from your splendid magazine that although Japan was ultimately defeated, the armed forces were absolutely dominant in individual battles...
Bombers & Backlogs. Though military secrecy clouds the exact backlog and production figures, Pratt & Whitney will fly off with at least 70% of every defense engine dollar in 1957, leaving its competitors to dogfight for the remaining...
...automatic controls, or it can be flown by radio from a distance. It can make a gunnery run on a real airplane as if a human pilot were on board. It can buzz in curves like a June bug, giving the pilot who tries to attack it a simulated dogfight. When posing as a bomber, it can carry radar-reflecting devices that make it look like a large airplane on the radarscope...
needed competition, certified nonscheduled Trans-Pacific Airlines for full-scale service with five DC-35 along H.A.L.'s routes. With that, the dogfight...
Senator J. William Fulbright's investigation of the stock market, which had some suspiciously political overtones from the start, last week turned into an out-and-out dogfight between Democrats and Republicans. G.O.P. Chairman Leonard Hall charged that Committee Member Paul Douglas of Illinois was "one of the original instigators of the gloom-and-doom attack" during the last congressional campaign, and that one of the star witnesses, Harvard's Professor John K. Galbraith, was an "oldtime New Dealing, A.D.A.-type of anti-Jeffersonian radical [who] flirted around with the customary pink fronts," and "almost wrecked" World...