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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week the House Armed Services Committee would meet to consider Van Zandt's demand for an investigation. The Air Force let it be known that it welcomed a full airing of the charges, and said it would rather be asked about the B-36 than any plane it owns. If the charges proved without foundation, then an investigation into who had spread the charges, and why, was due. Either way, the nation and its military establishment were in for some nasty days...
Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, left the United States by plane yesterday on his way to Germany, where he will spend the summer interviewing Russian displaced persons on a special project for the Russian Research Center...
...railway and airline offices on the Canadian side of the Canada-U.S. border many a U.S. citizen queued up last week and bought his ticket from a Canadian agent. In the same offices, almost every mail brought letters from the U.S. with orders and checks for plane and train tickets between U.S. points. More & more Americans were getting wise to the fact that they could get bargains in transportation by buying their tickets in Canada...
Fanny Blankers-Koen, blonde Dutch housewife who has four Olympic gold medals and two kids of her own, stepped off the plane in New York, sought out a track where she could work the kinks out of her legs (she ran an all-star field into the ground at Los Angeles later in the week), got an unexpected welcome on her first trip to the U.S. from a swarm of eager little helpers at the track...
...Rolls-Royce Dart engines vibrate hardly at all, so the Viscount's designers are hoping for low maintenance costs. None of the plane's 200 instruments, for instance, had to be replaced after its tests. With normal vibration a lot of them would have gone out of whack. The engines are rugged too. Rolls-Royce engineers tossed two buckets of ice cubes into the nose of one, and the only result was a loud clatter and a puff of steam out the exhaust...