Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Trouble. But all was not well. Vicky did not pull out of her glide and fly level, as she was intended to do. She wobbled and rolled, then steadied, still gliding, and popped into a cloud at 10,000 ft. That was the last seen of Vicky except for a mass of information radioed to the ground by instruments crowding her insides. Apparently her gyro-pilot went haywire, and could not hold her in level flight...
Even if Vicky did speed faster than sound (as some British newspapers but no responsible British scientists claimed), she could not claim to have cracked the sonic barrier. Vicky got help from gravity, losing altitude all the time. According to the rules, a true airplane must at least fly level...
Britain's Vicky was apparently more ambitious. Her body, eleven feet long, had only four-foot wings, but they were expected to hold her up in true, level flight. If her successors really fly level, and reach the planned 900 m.p.h., the British may claim one of the major credits toward building a supersonic plane...
Biggest proposed change was in the method of computing parity* and in the level at which the Government must support parity crops...
...critics of the support program thought Anderson had not gone far enough; farm groups thought that he had gone too far. Edward O'Neal, president of the potent American Farm Bureau Federation, objected to the lowering of the support level as well as the food-stamp plan. Ed O'Neal, who would rather keep prices up by planned scarcity, said that the federation is "profoundly opposed to feeding surplus food to low-income groups" except as a "desperate measure." It looked as if Clint Anderson's program would get some strong hoeing in Congress before it grows...