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...France during World War II when a land mine blew up under him. The victory of another legless veteran, Republican Charles Potter, who got elected to the U.S. Senate from Michigan in 1952, encouraged Swainson to enter politics despite his handicap. He beat out favored Secretary of State James Hare by a decisive 70,000 votes...
...airports are also wrestling with the immense technological problems of the jet age. The hungry jets have made obsolete the ubiquitous airport fuel truck; Idlewild, Seattle, London, O'Hare and Brasilia are all installing underground fueling systems. Hong Kong Airport has solved its space problem by building a runway 8,350 feet into Hong Kong bay. Miami has a new $350,000 radar approach system. Near San Francisco, the Federal Aviation Agency is building an ultramodern, $5,000,000 radar air-traffic control center, whose Remington Rand electronic brain will track all aircraft in a three-state zone. Hardest...
...looks like the President is trying to blast his way out of a sand trap." But Murrow as a humorist simply was not convincing. CBS also threw in extra cameras, rigged up arc lights, offered its reporters bonuses for scoops. When Vice President Nixon arrived at O'Hare International Airport, a Jeep-borne camera broke through the crowd; when President Eisenhower landed, a cagey CBS reporter persuaded Chicago Manufacturer William Rentschler, chairman of "Thank You Ike Day," to wear a microphone under his tie, and CBS picked up the words of Ike's greeting to the welcoming committee...
Swirbul liked to exhibit Navy aces to the workers, and while doing so pick up tips on how to make better fighting planes. Lieut. Commander Edward ("Butch") O'Hare (five Japanese bombers shot down and another crippled in a single engagement) visited the plant, talked of the need for a bigger, faster, more heavily armed fighter. Swirbul listened attentively. Within seven months the F6F Hellcat was rolling off the production line, the first U.S. fighter designed after Pearl Harbor to get into action...
...last point Secretary of State James Hare released figures that backed up American Motors. He announced that revenue from weight taxes in the state jumped $2.2 million over last year, indicated that there are 100,000 more vehicles registered in Michigan in 1960 than...