Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under present plans, U.S. air power will remain about where it is until next year. Then it will rise steadily as jet B-47s begin to replace the old piston-powered B-29s and B-50s. Defensively, the U.S. today probably has sufficient air defense to cut down a concentrated attack on the U.S. Strategic Air Command bases and atomic installations. But it cannot now defend the nation against raids on U.S. cities. The best estimate today, based on the sketchiest intelligence, is that the Russians have not a sufficient supply of atomic bombs to make a sustained atomic offensive...
Behind the Lines. Korea caught the Air Force in a war it was badly equipped to fight, and its old enemies made the most of its predicament. They cried that the Air Force had made a mistake in switching to jets, because the old piston-driven Mustangs were the only planes that had the range to get to Korea from Japan and remain on station long enough to furnish ground support. They charged that too much money had been poured into long-range bombers, too little into tactical air support. They complained that the Air Force's tactical...
...real facts finally began to filter through. Talk of piston superiority stopped abruptly when an F80 shot down the first MIG-15. The Eighth Fighter-Bomber Group put out of action 504 enemy tanks, 540 flak guns, 441 locomotives, 5,800 trucks in 22 months. Major General Emmett ("Rosie") O'Donnel's 22nd Bombardment Wing proved that a B-29 SAC unit could pack up, carry its own supplies 5,000 miles across an ocean, and be in action five days after receiving its orders to move. And it was obvious that SAC squadrons in the U.S. stood...
...produced in the past 50 years "by independent creators, exercising the priceless gifts of freedom and self-expression." The U.S. will be represented by the Boston Symphony and the New York City Ballet, by the music of such native American composers as Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Walter Piston and Virgil Thomson and of such adopted Americans as Igor Stravinsky and Paul Hindemith...
Tires & Symbols. Frenchmen and foreigners alike rely on the verdicts of Michelin; over the years, the guidebook has built up a reputation for accuracy and incorruptibility. Its motto is Pas de piston, pas de pot de vin-roughly, "No pull, no bribery." Not a line of paid advertising is carried on its pages...