Word: hanscom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Service to Bedford would in effect, provide an alternative air terminal facility at the Air Force's Hanscom Field. In the event that Logan Airport is fogged in, liners are currently diverted to Hartford-Springfield, Nantucket, or even New York fields, and cannot use the nearby Bedford installation. Rapid transit along the Boston and Maine trackage would aid travellers by making a second jet-age facility available for commerical airliners...
...brace themselves to review the book, and attacks were vehement. The Providence Journal was tempted, but resisted: "After wading along with a kind of fascinated horror through 140,000 words, most readers will probably become bored . . . at times downright sickened . . ." The New York World Telegram's Leslie Hanscom fumed that "there were moments . . . when my whole instinct was to land a Babbitt's righteous punch on the super-civilized nose of the author . . . The novel has a tone which says that, if you cannot swallow its exquisitely distilled sewage with a good appetite, then you'd better...
...earth, the jet stream offers free west-east transportation to airplanes that can find it and stay in it. It is a hard trick to do, but last week a B-47 bomber stayed in the jet stream most of the way from March Air Force Base, Calif, to Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass., and made the 2,700-mile trip in 3 hr. 47 min. at the average ground speed of 714 m.p.h.-setting an unofficial record. Major Mont Smith, commander of the B-47, gave most of the credit to the AN/APN-66, a navigation device made by General...
...psychiatrists were doing it better. He persuaded his medical-school classmate, Dr. G. Alexander ("Bob") Young Jr., who became a psychosomaticist after the war, to take on a group of ministers for lectures, discussions and group therapy. Then he persuaded the Rev. Ben Wallace of Omaha's Hanscom Park Methodist Church to help round up a group...