Word: overheads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wants also to be sure defense dollar are being spent efficiently. "Before Korea we were spending enough but not wisely. The Administration needs to set up a continuing civilize authority to check that our defense money is buying machines and armed units instead of just paying for a large overhead...
Just before sunset, Jones and his crewman, Marine Corporal Larry Whittall, spotted the downed fighter pilot. He had moved into an abandoned foxhole on top of a hill; U.S. fighter planes overhead were firing at swarms of Reds who were trying to get at him. Just as Jones was about to lower his helicopter for a landing, he ran into Red fire. "Guys were running out of a house taking pot shots at us," Jones recalls...
Peering through gold-rimmed spectacles, Attlee faced a tense, silent House, was interrupted only once when a flight of jet airplanes flew overhead. Attlee's plan...
Toward Red Beach. The dirty yellow waters of Inchon harbor bore a tremendous array of boats. As far as the eye could see there were LSVPs in groups of five making endless circles before the great grey assault ships. Ahead were the cruisers, destroyers and rocket ships. Overhead, Navy and Marine planes streaked for targets ashore. The big guns boomed like tremendous bass drums. The smaller 40-mm. guns hammered away with the incessant roll of snare drums...
Last week North American Aviation, Inc. announced that it had licked the problem by fitting its four-jet B45 Tornado with new-type bomb-bay doors. Instead of swinging open, they slide into the plane like overhead garage doors. The falling bombs hit a smoothly flowing airstream instead of the uneven eddies stirred up by the old-style doors. Even above 500 m.p.h., all the bombs fall alike, a necessity for good marksmanship...