Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voted 329-36 to set up an Air Force academy, a "West Point of the Air," but did not decide where to put it, or how much to spend on it. Possible locations: Colorado Springs, St. Louis, Marysville (Calif.), Madison (Ind.), Charlotte (N.C.), or somewhere in Texas-the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Randolph Field, or near the Oklahoma border. Minimum cost: $125 million...
...Fort Worth Rodeo...
Escape from Fort Bravo. High-style horse opera, a worthy stablemate to Shane and High Noon; with William Holden, John Forsythe (TIME...
...editorial, the Times owned up to the fact that its readers had been misled, said: "Army investigators found no spies, and neither has Senator McCarthy, yet the Senator was given sensational headlines last October on supposed espionage and Communism at Monmouth . . . For the newspapers, Fort Monmouth has been a lesson that will not quickly be forgotten, but the reading public should understand that it is difficult, if not impossible, to ignore charges by Senator McCarthy just because they are usually proved exaggerated or false. The remedy lies with the reader...
CONVERTIPLANE, a cross between a helicopter and a fixed-wing plane, is taking shape at Bell Aircraft's Fort Worth plant under a joint Army-Air Force contract. The new aircraft will have propellers that tilt horizontally to lift it straight up like a helicopter, then tilt forward to pull the plane ahead at 150 m.p.h...