Word: nosedives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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$86 MILLION ORDER from Navy will help Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. out of cutback woes. The Long Island company is getting a $46 million contract to produce propeller-driven, all-weather, radar-equipped WF-2 Tracer early-warning planes and a $40 million production contract for transonic, needle-nosed F9F...
With A Novel Affair, two long shorts are played off against one another--one displaying the considerable versatility of the British air industry, and the other, Pablo Casals. Impressive as the needle-nosed bursts of speed are, Casals is part of a better world.
Space Toboggan. Professor of Aerodynamics Antonio Ferri of the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn is a skip man. He believes that a hypervelocity missile should spend only a short time in the heat-generating atmosphere, then soar up to peaceful space to cool off. Ferri's missile designed to follow...
Died. Martin T. Lacey, 75 (less one day), iron-jawed, dent-nosed sparkplug (since 1903) of the New York labor front, kingpin Teamsters union leader who fought the Beck-Hoffa-Dio racketeers for his New York Teamsters' Joint Council 16 presidency but lost it to Hoffa's pal...
"Once upon a time there was a large-eared, drip-nosed fugitive from multiplication and Sunday school ... He lived in the Victorian, gabled, ginger-bready house of his maternal grandpa, a sea captain with a bushy mustache. This man's name was Edward Hall Adkins. The Negroes called him...