Word: hawkings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Abraham Lincoln, captain of Illinois volunteers in the Black Hawk War of 1832, supported Professional Soldier Scott in the campaign...
...AFLOAT UNTIL DAY. At dawn the ship rolled and tumbled like a half-submerged log, the red paint on her bottom plainly visible. But she floated. And out beyond her, half hidden by the smoking seas, lay a wallowing covey of rescue ships: the U.S. freighters Southland and War hawk, U.S. military transport General A. W. Greely, the Norwegian tanker H. Westfal-Larsen, the German steamship Arion, the British steamship Sherborne...
Since Kitty Hawk, the fear of fire in a fuel tank has haunted airplane pilots and manufacturers. Armor plate and pumping systems for getting inert gas into the waste space in fuel tanks have both been tried. Neither method has ever been completely satisfactory. Last week, at Britain's Royal Aircraft Establishment at Farnborough, R.A.F. officers learned that a planned explosion, set off at just the right time, may prove to be the best way to prevent an accidental explosion from getting out of hand...
...world of science and invention was, for the moment, unmoved. Those were the days when Henry Ford was still a struggling manufacturer gambling on the future of a mechanical curiosity. The Wright brothers were coaxing their first plane into brief and tentative flights over the sand dunes at Kitty Hawk. A Frenchman was prepared to turn out an automatic hat-tipper for use with the narrow-brimmed derbies of the period. And a Detroit doctor, after diligent study, had come to the horrified conclusion that before long the earth would be populated with lunatics...
...question before the court in Iowa's Black Hawk County Courthouse last week was tough to answer: What is a Christian? On the answer depended...