Word: germanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Moments later, the Hercules took off from Evreux, France. When it flew across the West German border into the southern corridor at 25,000 ft., three Soviet jet fighters closed in, wheeled to within 10 ft. of the transport's wingtips, buzzed annoyingly until it entered the landing pattern of Berlin's Tempelhof airport. On the return trip, also at 25,000 ft., it was harassed by Russian fighters all the way through the corridor to the western borders of Communist-held East Germany...
Major General Bernard Schriever, 48, who organized and built up the Air Force's Ballistic Missile Division, will get a third star and be named chief of the Air Research and Development Command, B.M.D.'s parent group. German-born Ben Schriever (TIME, cover. April 1, 1957) grew up in Texas, took an engineering degree at Texas A. & M., got his wings in 1933. He worked as a test pilot, studied at Wright Field's Air Corps Engineering School, took time out to get a master's degree in mechanical engineering at Stanford University...
...progress are comparisons with 1940 when the country still lay in the wreckage created by the Civil War. Fact is that Spain, which produced 1,000,000 tons of steel in 1929, produced only 1,600,000 tons last year, and the homemade steel still costs more than German steel of better quality...
Spunk & Sparkle. Expressen was an extravert right from its wartime beginnings in neutral Sweden. Bonnier wanted a paper that would back the Allies (only some 20% of Sweden's editors were pro-German at the time), needed an editor with enough spunk and sparkle to put Expressen apart from the rest of the Swedish press, which was generally cast in the sobersided Scandinavian tradition...
...West Germany's Wesphalia "camping bus," which looks like Volkswagen's utility bus, has beds for two in the back. Price: $2,195. A second German car: the NSU Sport Prinz with seats for four, a two-cylinder engine that gets 55 miles per gal., and a price...