Word: prop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with two 37-mm. cannon, four .50-cal. machine guns. No sooner was it aloft than Bell was busy with a radical single-engined fighter, the P-39. It was the first single-engined U.S. fighter with tricycle landing gear, had a 37-mm. cannon firing through the hollow prop hub. Expanding from 100 workers to 55,000 at five plants around the U.S. in World War II, Bell built 12,900 fighters (many of which were lend-leased to the Russians), and by 1944 was in production with another innovation, the Bell P-59 Airacomet, first U.S. jet fighter...
...summer long National League ball fans were popping with pride and suspense. The race for the pennant was wide open. Cincinnati had the power to prop up its weak pitching; Milwaukee had just enough of everything to stay in front; the tired old champs from Brooklyn were still hanging on. Almost any game was worth watching; all was well with the world. New York was walking off with the American League pennant, and the man in the stands shouted his raucous, stylized defiance: "There are only two major leagues, the Yankees and us. And the Yanks...
...handshaking fetish has caused the Stevenson entourage some anguish. Admits a Kefauver assistant: "It's like pulling a fly off flypaper." Even Nancy Kefauver has her tale of woe. Campaigning with Estes one time, she stepped from a plane to face a howling wind and the prop wash of several other planes. Nancy's hat was imperiled, her skirt began to balloon. Says she: "Just as I grabbed for the hat with one hand and for the skirt with the other, an eager, friendly crowd swarmed up to greet us. Someone thrust at me the usual welcoming bouquet...
...whose "cornfield journalism" has been a Midwest institution for 68 years; in Alton, Ill. A little (5 ft. 6 in., 125 Ibs.) wiry man with unruly grey hair, "Mr. Bee" went to the P-D ten years after its founding (1878) by the first Joseph Pulitzer, became a standard prop at back-country murder trials and hillbilly feuds, stamped his copy with his own brand of homespun humor. ("Methuselah lived 969 years and all they said about him was that he died. But what was he doing for 969 years? What a story, and all the reporters missed...
...promise, the Crusader will be as big a boon to Chance Vought as to the Navy. Splitting off from parent United Aircraft Corp. two years ago, Chance Vought and President Frederick 0. Detweiler, 44, have been through a difficult first solo. The last of C. V.'s famed prop-driven F4U Corsairs came off the line in 1953; bugs and engine trouble held back the Corsair's successor, the big twin-jet F7U Cutlass fighter, with production scheduled to end in late 1955. Though C. V. was also producing the Navy Regulus guided missile, had a development contract...