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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...operations have kept the Viet Minh off balance. Last week Navarre launched the biggest airborne attack since the Langson border raid in July, this time against the Communist base at Dienbienphu. Between the Black River and Laos. This time it was not a hit-and-run raid; the French meant to seize Dienbienphu and hold...
...reach high altitude with a minimum expenditure of fuel), Crossfield nosed over and flew practically level under full power. The machmeter, which measures speed in multiples of the speed of sound, went slightly above Mach 2. With the air temperature down to about 67° below zero F., this meant that Crossfield was flying at 1,327 m.p.h. (the speed of sound at that temperature is 660 m.p.h.). Bridgeman's best speed in the Skyrocket: 1,238 m.p.h...
General Motors Corp. announced last week that it will sell $300 million in debentures next month, partly to finance a "high level" of corporate expansion. For giant G.M., which has already spent $1¼ billion for new plant and equipment in the last four years, the announcement meant that there will be no letdown in the company's growth program. The issue will be the biggest industrial offering ever made to the U.S. public, and will represent the first long-term debt G.M. has had since 1949, when it retired the last of its notes...
...promise: "I'll put a price tag on every operation in our shop." Curtiss-Wright needed such tags. The company, once the biggest in the aircraft industry, had been forced to shut down 16 of its 19 engine, propeller and airframe plants. Last week Hurley demonstrated what he meant by price tags; in Curtiss-Wright's Wood-Ridge, N.J. engine plant, he showed off a faster and cheaper way of making engines by means of a new "automated" assembly line, the most advanced in the aircraft industry...
These relics were not meant as a vulgar insult to President Jefferson. They were zoological samplings from Meriwether Lewis and William Clark,* of the U.S. Army, out to explore Jefferson's Louisiana Purchase. Every U.S. schoolboy has heard of them, but the seven volumes of their journals have long been the private browsing grounds of historical grubbers. Now Pulitzer Prize winner Bernard (Across the Wide Missouri) DeVoto has cut them down to everyman's size, restored the great adventure to the common reader...