Word: foulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When New Hampshire's sharp-tongued Senator Styles Bridges charged last November that the Air Force was paying Kaiser-Frazer $1.2 million apiece for the same C-119 Flying Boxcar that Fairchild Engine and Airplane Corp. made for $260,000, K-F's President Edgar Kaiser cried foul. He took newspaper ads in ten cities to answer the charges of K-F's inefficiency (TIME, Nov. 24) and invited a congressional investigation. Last week...
Traffic & Landing. For foul-weather landings, the common system includes both radar-directed, ground-controlled approach (GCA) so popular with the military, and the instrument-landing system (ILS) that is preferred by airline pilots. At airports equipped with both systems, planes can make their final approach down the ILS radio beam, while alert ground crews give extra guidance through...
...Alumni Association of Boston on March 4, the president of Dartmouth claimed Communists are disqualified to teach. He asked for teachers who have "no need to take refuge in any American tribunal behind a privilege against incrimination by their own words." At the same time, Dickey warned against the "foul practices of incrimination by recrimination and insinuation...
...race settled down into a contest of durability on a track foul with exhaust fumes and simmering with bakeoven heat. For all their high-flown names (Springfield Welding Special, Cop-Sil-Loy Brake Special, Grancor-Elgin Piston Pin Special), all but one of the low-slung racers were powered by four-cylinder Meyer-Drake engines...
...this not wholly foul world I remember her last words, after a life of daring: "Old age is so boring." And, of Yeats, "I shall see him again...