Word: projected
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dormitories and clubs are joining this year in the project which includes food booths, fortune tellers procured by Bertram Hall, a ring toss sponsored by the Catholic Club, and a fishbowl-grab managed by Cabot Hall residents. The Pan American Club has the soft drink concession...
...Class Night," arranged for Tuesday night, June 21, in Memorial Hall, is a new feature in Graduation Week. Eley described this project as "somewhat like the Freshman Smokers," and said that entertainment will come "as much as possible" from members of the Class...
...opposition can truthfully argue--as it does--that the CVA would be "state socialism." But the charge of "socialism" alone doesn't frighten so many people in 1949 as it did in 1933, when the first Valley project was getting under way. The question is whether the Northwest needs this form of government aid or not. And when the plush opponents of CVA claim that the Northwest is doing fine as it is, they are unfortunately in error...
Chuck Yeager, Major Cardenas (Chuck's C.O. as well as the pilot who takes the X-1 aloft), and Flight Engineer Jackie Ridley are permanent at Muroc. The X-1 is not a transient project but the Air Force's first "research airplane," and it needs both Muroc's room and its walled-off secrecy. The X-1 was never intended as an "operational airplane"; it is more like a flying wind tunnel. Its big advantage is that its rockets, which produce a thrust of 6,000 Ibs., are not weakened, like "air-breathing" engines, by high...
...choice of jobs in the Air Force. He tried instructing for a while, but found it dull. Then he got to Wright Field as a flight test pilot. After watching him do the most exacting tests (like landing jet fighters "hard"), Colonel Boyd gave him the X-1 project, which all ambitious test pilots wanted. "Chuck is always cool," says Colonel Boyd. "He never gets excited, and he flies like part of the airplane...