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...Teething Troubles." Some airmen readily admitted that they had not always been so sure that the B-36 could meet that threat. One who did was General George Kenney, who ran the Mac Arthur air arm in the Pacific. In 1946, said Kenney, he had been so discouraged by the "teething troubles" of the B-36 that he had recommended cancellation of all further orders. But as B-36 performance began to improve, Kenney continued, his mind gradually changed. "It astonished me," he explained frankly. "The youngsters liked it. They said it handled good up there. I said good...
With the King George case postponed until next fall, the Gloucester County case was decided first. U.S. District Judge Sterling Hutcheson last winter found Superintendent J. Walter Kenney and the three-man school board guilty of contempt for failing to carry out the equalization order. But the judge delayed sentence to give the defendants a little longer...
...Failure. Last week the grace period expired. The Gloucester school board had tried to float a $300,000 bond issue to build a brand-new Negro high school, but Gloucester County had voted it down. In the court's view, the defendants had failed; Superintendent Kenney and Gloucester County's school-board members were fined $250 apiece...
Have a Chair. The famed Hitchcock chairs, sold from door to door by Yankee peddlers more than 100 years ago, were back in production. In the rebuilt original plant at Riverton (formerly Hitchcocks-ville), Conn., enterprising Furniture Makers John Kenney and Richard Coombs were turning out rush-seated Hitchcock crown backs, turtle backs, button backs and plain slat backs, for sale throughout the U.S. The price...
...there was a painful shortage of iron men with elephant hides. There was no stampede of qualified men for Royall's $15,000 job, or the $10,000 under secretaryship abandoned by William H. Draper. Navy Secretary John L. Sullivan ($15,000) and his Under Secretary W. John Kenney ($10,000) were thinking of leaving, too. There were two $15,000 openings on the Atomic Energy Commission (former Iowa editor W. W. Waymack had left, Physicist Robert Bacher had submitted his resignation). Admiral W. W. Smith's $12,000 chairmanship of the Maritime Commission was also open...