Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both pilots were taking risks: they flew at a dangerously low altitude, and 606 m.p.h. is well above the critical speed which has carried many a pilot to his death. Modern jet engines have plenty of power to push a plane still faster. But the properties of the air itself discourage highspeed flight...
With some planes, the shock wave may form at speeds as low as 550 m.p.h. Captain Wilson's Meteor was probably designed specially to push the danger limit upward. Even so, he did not dare use the full power of his jets...
...Unity. Last summer the new army was ready for action. With the utmost secrecy it prepared to push through the Japanese "lifeline" in South China, seize a port on the coast and thereby open the country for a U.S. landing. Suddenly the Japanese surrendered. The C.C.C. was denied both a victory and the recognition for which it had labored so long...
Extremists of the air and push-button-war persuasion (like Major Alexander de Seversky) believed that all armies and navies had been made obsolete by air power. Chicago's Chancellor Robert Hutchins (see INTERNATIONAL) went Seversky one better: "The conventional reliances of the past-a large army, navy and air force-are obsolete. They find favor only in the nostalgic dreams of obsolescent generals and admirals...
...other end of the scale of danger, General Electric's famed Dr. Irving Langmuir told a Senate committee that the Russians, in ten or 20 years, might be able to push a button and thereby destroy "not only our cities, but every man, woman and child in the United States...