Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vanguard, which is still only a set of plans on the drawing board plus a wooden mockup, is a big, versatile, medium-range (up to 3,000 miles) airliner that will cruise at 420 m.p.h. Designed with a two-level, "double-bubble" fuselage, the Vanguard will be able to carry two tons of freight and mail on the lower deck and as many as 122 passengers on the top deck. T.C.A. will take delivery on its Vanguards in the fall and winter of 1960-61, retire or sell all its piston-engine planes, wind up with an airfleet composed entirely...
...other) hobby? Dr. Bowes answered: "His tendency to become preoccupied with, and dependent upon, the bizarre recorded sounds . . . combined with the urgency of the need and the final insufficiency of all attempts to satisfy it ... The sound is turned up and up until it reaches the physical level of pain . . . One addict told me he would not be satisfied until he could hear the drop of saliva from the French horns...
...Sixth Fleet every carrier pilot is "special-weapons qualified," meaning that he is trained to handle atomic bombs. As of now, Admiral Brown's attack squadrons, paced by prop-driven Douglas AD Skyraiders, can deliver a low-level atomic attack at ranges up to 1,000 miles. Late this month the 60,000-ton Forrestal will relieve Coral Sea, bringing to the Mediterranean the Douglas A3D Skywarrior, a 600-m.p.h. twin-jet bomber with a range that can reach all the way to Moscow, if necessary, from anywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean...
...Sixth Fleet were back last week on their arduous routine patrolling-up to twelve hours a day on watch broken by chow lines, snatched sack time, ships' movies, and mail brought in almost daily by helicopter and high-line-with a high level of discipline and a low level of petty offenses that reflected superb morale. "This," said one ensign, comparing the salad days of Mediterranean duty to the present paucity of ports, "is no all-expense tour...
...southern sweep of the big semicircle centered on Maracaibo, Peru was redoubling an oil search in its eastern jungles; Texas Petroleum Co. last week reached the 10,700-ft. level in its third test well on the Marañón River. Peru put particularly heavy hopes on the prospects in the trans-Andean jungle. Only last month the government sadly announced that not a drop of oil had been found in four years of drilling the once-promising Sechura Desert on the Pacific Coast. Though still a producer (from the waning field at Talara), Peru will have to import...