Word: gs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supersonic delta-wing B58 Hustler, loping along at 650 m.p.h. 32,000 ft. over Texas, began a sharp turn to the southeast. Suddenly the four-jet bomber strained, trembled. "The first thing I noticed," said Captain Daniel Holland, the defensive-systems operator, "was that we were pulling Gs. which indicated to me that we were achieving an unusual attitude . . . I called Smitty [Major Richard Smith, 40, the pilot] and said: 'What's the matter? What's going on?' The answer wasn't immediate, so I figured he was fighting the controls. Next thing I knew...
Seniors applying for government service positions may enter the service with a rank of GS-7, providing they meet two academic requirements. Previous to this year, the highest position open to a newcomer was GS...
Requirements for applicants attaining GS-7 include "a sufficiently high score on a written test" and a B average or rank in the upper 25 per cent of their class, according to an announcement outlining the changes. Anual salaries for the positions of GS-5 and GS-7 differ...
...book's hero is an open-faced, mouse-mannered young GS-7 ($4,525 a year) named Humphrey Hogan, 'whose rise to G59 ($5.440 a year) is blocked by an outrageous menagerie of nitpickers and by his own absence of ambition. But his happy inconsequence irritates a blue-eyed, butterfat young stenographer and she dangles herself in front of Humphrey like a hunk of process cheese. Mouse that he is, he leaps for the bait and begins to assert himself around his office. Abruptly, he is buried under freshly picked nits.' "Kay," he whispers...
Smith remembers no more, but engineering analysis can describe roughly what happened. The wind hit his body with a force of 8,000 Ibs., and he felt deceleration of 40 gs, so that his organs weighed 40 times normal. His arms and legs must have flailed like propeller blades. His helmet, shoes, socks, gloves, wristwatch and ring were stripped off. His seat blew away automatically; his parachute opened and his unconscious, battered body drifted down toward the sea half a mile offshore. Air blast had inflated his stomach and lungs so that his body floated when it hit the water...