Word: hangars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...seconds-even to a hairbreadth 14 seconds. Each time the launching was scrubbed. And at length, the red-eyed, nerve-racked Navymen found a small propellant leak in the rocket's second stage. It was during the Vanguard trials that the Army moved its shrouded bird from a hangar to its launching pad and began to groom it for flight...
...flight of light planes hovered like hummingbirds over the green eastern jungle of Peru last week, dipping into tiny airstrips and steaming rivers to pick up waiting passengers, then heading back to a tin-roofed hangar by remote Lake Yarinacocha. They discharged their passengers, U.S. Protestant missionaries and their Indian assistants, darted back for more. One of the world's most gallant little airlines thus brought together the 300 missionaries and workers of the Summer Institute of Linguistics to S.I.L.'s yearly refresher course...
...again stopped as a rain squall splashed overhead. At last the red warning light blinked, and the workers cleared the area. The 40-man firing team had long since begun operations 750 ft. away in a sand-covered concrete blockhouse. A mile away, on the roof of a hangar, stood B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations manager for Convair, Big Annie's builder. Tuned with a headset to the countdown, MacNabb relayed the information to a teletype operator below, who in turn flashed it to Convair...
...schedule, and the company cannot expand its $100 million bank credit, Boeing will be forced into a major production slowdown, says senior Vice President Wellwood E. Beall. Boeing is already closing its 1500-worker plant at Everett, Wash.; it has chopped employee overtime, temporarily abandoned a new preflight hangar at Moses Lake, Wash., reduced its shop supply inventory, and cancelled its Christmas party this year...
Dutourd soon found himself imprisoned in a vast aircraft hangar, along with 8,000 other Frenchmen who lolled about admiring the conquering Germans for their elegance, and green with envy of their boots. (In a devastating aside, Dutourd suggests that the money poured into the Maginot Line might better have been spent on boots for the French army.) It was assumed that the war was nearly over, that the Germans would send the prisoners home on free railroad passes. But Dutourd got away. He carries modesty about his three-year stint with the Resistance to the point of devoting half...