Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bigger. Fred Rentschler has always believed that the best airplane is only as good as its engine. Twenty-six years ago, at 36, he quit his job as president of Wright Aeronautical Corp. when his board of directors boggled at his demands for funds for engine research. The popular dream of 1924-a "flivver" plane for every American family-left him unmoved. He was sure the future of aviation lay in bigger aircraft, ever more powerful engines. He went looking for a place to build a brand-new air-cooled engine that would outclass the liquid-cooled engines such...
...time when American blood is again being shed to preserve our dream of freedom, we are constrained fearlessly and frankly to call the charges . . . what they truly are: a fraud and a hoax perpetrated on the Senate of the United States and the American people. They represent perhaps the most nefarious campaign of half-truths and untruth in the history of this republic...
Connecticut's freshman Senator Bill Benton, who earned a precocious fortune as an adman, has two deep feelings about the U.S.: 1) as a package to sell, it is an adman's dream, and 2) the U.S. is advertising itself much too dreamily. Last week, before a Senate foreign relations subcommittee, Bill Benton got another chance to make his pitch. Up for discussion was his resolution calling for an overhaul of U.S. propaganda and an expansion of the Voice of America to reach "virtually every radio set in the world...
...Like Maria, few Sicilians could believe at first that Salvatore Giuliano was really dead. He had been as handsome as a schoolgirl's dream, as vain and indestructible as a god on Olympus. For seven years in the mountain fastnesses of Sicily, he had been the king of bandits in a land where every bandit is looked upon as a king. Giuliano had gathered about him an army of 600 or more followers...
...picks up a magazine, he likes to study the ads for new cars." The Review explained that "Pa" was slang for "father." Then it added: "This sentence portrays the average American as shortsighted politically ... He does not want to be informed, he wants merely to escape into a dream world in his leisure hours." With Editor Powell's homeland now fighting his friends in Korea, old J.B.'s admirers waited to see if son Bill would escape from his own dream world...