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There has been considerable evidence to back them up. At Key West the Navy had clinched an authorization for a flush-decked 63,000 ton carrier, in a swap for giving up strategic bombing to the Air Force. But Secretary of Defense Louis. Johnson ordered the ship off the ways soon after he took office...
...pushes buttons alongside the standard typewriter keyboard of the desk-size machine to select the desired type size and style, types the line, corrects any mistakes. Then, by a combination of an electronic memory and an electric eye, the machine automatically "justifies" the line, i.e., spaces it to fit flush in the column, and transfers it to a film on a rotating drum. At six letters a second, it can set twelve newspaper lines a minute, three times average linotype speed. Automatically developed, the film is ready for photoengraving...
...major race tracks across the nation, chalk-eaters (form players) were choking last weekend over a straight flush of longshots...
Painter Jacques Villon is a good-humored little Norman with the flush of many fine dinners and good round wines on his smooth old face. He lives in a garden studio on the northwest edge of Paris, enjoying a belated triumph...
There had always been a case against the supercarrier on grounds of economy. Big enough (1,090 ft.) and roomy enough to be a base for 120 fighters or 24 medium-range bombers, the flush-decked United States had been blueprinted at $124 million. By last week, however, rising costs had boosted the Navy's own estimate to $188 million. Other estimates put the eventual cost at more than $500 million for the ship and the planes it would carry...