Word: propped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bell's enthusiasm for his old C.O. was well placed. During the eight years that Big Ed Rawlings ran the Air Force's Materiel Command, he took its procurement methods from the prop age into the space age. Under Rawlings, a Harvard Business School graduate, the old military system of stockpiling millions of items regardless of cost was turned into a worldwide computerized network of controls that lets little go to waste. This was just the kind of Wheaties that General Mills needed...
...space required for the prisoners'-take-off. At last, beaming like a black-bearded Santa Claus, Castro waved the prisoners toward freedom. One pilot got a vicarious sort of revenge: he gunned his plane in such a way that Fidel's cap almost flew off in the prop wash...
Behind the first two men, the Crimson credentials read like a congregation of All-American players. Lou Williams was interscholastic champion while in prop school, Paul Sullivan is captain of the tennis team, Doug Walter advanced to the quarterfinals of the 1962 national championships, and Roger Wiegand, who is squash captain this year, has been a stand-out for two years...
...money seldom changes hands. The film shows the product; the product maker advertises the film on billboards and packages. But smalltime money deals still go on, of course, with advertisers making direct contributions to stagehands, prop-men and even actors to slip their products before the cameras. Most stars still refuse to have any part of it. "I tried to get Cary Grant in on a tie-in," says one Hollywood flack, "but he just looked at me and said, 'Who needs...
...British aircraft. In 1955, it ordered a fleet of sleek, new Comet4 long-range pure jets and, after delivery in 1958, saw them made obsolete within a year by more economical, longer-range U.S. Boeing 707s. Now BOAC has 16 Boeing 707s; but it is stuck with 60 prop planes, propjets and Comets, whose value, according to the last BOAC annual report, is "?30 million less than book value...