Word: goings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes which had cost British taxpayers an estimated $28 to $40 million. As far back as 1942, the government had put grizzled Baron Brabazon of Tara (who holds Britain's Pilot License No. 1) at the head of a committee which mapped out five basic postwar types to go after the world plane market. Last week prototypes of all but one (which was never started) were at the order-taking stage...
...aircraft builders were ready to go whenever anyone placed an order. Lockheed, whose Constellation is a prime target for the Comet to shoot at, has plans for a 40-passenger jet transport which it thinks could keep pace with the Comet and cost no more than a Connie to operate. Douglas also has commercial jets, stalemated at the paper stage. So does Boeing, which said, perhaps overoptimistically, that it could produce a 500-m.p.h. transport within 18 months of receiving a contract. But Boeing's Vice President Wellwood E. Beall warned that Congress would have to act soon. Said...
...coming into the market for delivery n November. But if the price is rising, and the crop short, many a farmer will probably hold out his onions and the short sellers scurry to cover their sales. Commented a trader happily: "That's when prices will really begin to go...
Invitation to Suicide. Pennsylvania-born Hap Arnold hadn't planned to go to West Point in the first place. His older brother had the appointment and ditched it, but small-town Dr. Arnold was determined that one of his sons should become an officer. Hap was persuaded to pinch-hit, was commissioned a 2nd lieutenant of infantry in 1907. When he saw Louis Bleriot's English Channel-hopping monoplane on exhibition in Paris in 1909, he didn't even know what the freakish contraption was. When he figured it out, his first.thought forecast the futures of both...
...been built for the Bureau of the Ordnance of the U. S. Navy to be used at the Naval Proving Ground Command at Dahlgren, Virginia. It is anticipated that testing operations will have been completed by the first of the year and the machine will go to the Navy at that time...