Word: planes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Force argue that the B-36 was invulnerable ("We know," said General Vandenberg in the same speech, "that no plane or weapon of any kind can be completely invulnerable"). The Air Force, Vandenberg said, held only that the B-36 could get through in sufficient numbers to deliver an initial atomic blow; the threat alone "serves to divert a great portion of any nation's effort to its internal defense." There were better planes than the B-36 on the drawing board and in the works, but until they were ready, the B-36 remained the best bomber...
...plea for more money and arms for Nationalist China last December, Madame Chiang Kai-shek asked the U.S. for a favor: she needed suitable air transport between Nanking and Washington. The U.S. Government fixed her up handsomely. The Military Air Transport Service brought her to California in a Navy plane, flew her and her party (a general, a maid, two secretaries) the rest of the way in the old presidential DC-4, the Sacred...
...back to San Francisco, presumably because he had been unable to reach a settlement of the Hawaiian waterfront strike. The newsmen, the longshoremen and Bridges stood talking idly a few minutes more. Harry was expecting a phone call, he said. Finally the airport loudspeaker blared out that Bridges' plane was loading. "Well," said Harry, "there hasn't been any phone call so here it is." He cocked a foot up on a nearby bench and began talking slowly so that reporters could get it all down: "I have negotiated settlement of the longshore strike...
Another moral matter (situated on a different plane) occupied the Legal Committee last week. Yugoslavia placed before it a Draft Declaration on the Rights, and Duties of States. A clear indictment of Russia's actions against Yugoslavia., the declaration said: "Every people has the right to self-determination . . . without any economic, political or military pressures or interferences on the part of other states . . . Every state has the duty ... to curb all activities calculated to spread hatred toward other peoples, to affront their honor or offend the dignity of and slander, other states...
Married. James Allan Mollison, 44, playboyish British airman, first man to fly the North Atlantic solo from east to west (1932); and Mary Kamphuis, 33, tall blonde director of his cocoa-butter firm; he for the third time (his first wife, Aviatrix Amy Johnson Mollison, was killed in a plane crash in 1941, three years after their divorce), she for the second; in Maidenhead, England...