Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force last week announced that it has ordered production to begin on its first supersonic jet bomber, the B58 Hustler. To be built at Fort Worth by Consolidated Vultee, the B58 can carry the hydrogen bomb, but will have to be based at Alaskan or overseas fields because of its relatively short range. The new medium bomber will probably not replace the 600 m.p.h. B-47 for at least two years...
...Fort Bliss, Texas...
...Fort Leonard Wood...
...Antonio a new museum chock-full of French impressionists will open next month. In Dallas, the preview of the art exhibition at the state fair drew 900 people last week-twice as many as ever before. And the next night the spanking new $500,000 art museum opened at Fort Worth...
Guest of honor at the Fort Worth opening was Francis Henry Taylor, director of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, who went so far as to tell the Texans exactly what they wanted to hear: "The great future of the artistic movement of this country must inevitably take its leadership from the Southwest and Far West . . . Perhaps you here in your part of the country are not aware of . . . how much of a breath of fresh air you are blowing into the stagnant and inconsequential backwaters of the large Eastern cities . . . Make the best of our world and rejoice...