Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...transfer of Algerian Rebel Leader Mohammed ben Bella and four of his colleagues from Paris' Santé prison to more comfortable quarters in a military fortress. Henceforth, the five rebel leaders (whom the French kidnaped off a Moroccan plane in 1956) will have the honorable status of military prisoners. ¶The release of 7,000 Algerians from political detention camps. ¶ The commutation to life imprisonment of all death sentences (198) hanging over members of the rebel F.L.N...
...geneticists, less intellectual." plane they ask me whether or not I think they are upper-middlebrows...
Demon & Voodoo. Founded in 1939 by Engineer-Airman McDonnell with the help of the Rockefellers, the company taxied around until after World War II doing mostly subcontract and experimental work. Finally it took off with the first production order for a plane of its own design, the FH1 Phantom, the Navy's first carrier-based jet fighter. Other orders (800 planes) followed for its second plane, the F2H Banshee. What almost proved McDonnell's undoing was No. 3, an ambitious supersonic carrier fighter called the F3H Demon. It proved too heavy for its Navy-specified Westinghouse engine...
Since then, McDonnell has come along fast. From a strictly Navy supplier, the company became a pillar of the Air Force with $1.2 billion worth of orders for its burly F101 Voodoo jet, a plane fast (1,200 m.p.h.) and versatile enough to perform every job from tactical A-bomber to all-weather interceptor. McDonnell went into missiles and helicopters, landed an $8,000,000 contract for its XV1 convertiplane, another $45 million for its high-speed Quail bomber decoy drone. Latest project: the supersonic (Mach 2 plus) F4H fighter, which beat out Chance Vought's F8U3 Crusader...
...Miami-to-Chicago plane one day last week, Basil Walters, executive editor of the Knight newspaper chain, hunched over a cream-colored sheet of hotel stationery, cautiously shielding what he wrote from the eyes of the stranger sitting beside him. "Stuffy"' Walters had a secret...