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...retail stores. Last week Schuman showed off the results of some of his thinking: he opened a new $2,000,000 three-story plant, and celebrated with a fashion show at San Francisco's Fairmont Hotel. There, amid the popping of champagne corks, models drifted along the runway wearing coats and suits of Schuman's new fall line. But the important part of Schuman's thinking was not only the designs; it was the fact that the clothing was made largely of the materials Manufacturer Schuman is .bringing in from Europe under his own private "Trade...
...which he made on a Leningrad airstrip in 1934. As U.S. air attache in Russia, West Pointer White flew Ambassador Bill Bullitt from Mos cow to Leningrad in a two-place Douglas O-38F, found he had no power as he came in to land. The plane hit the runway, nosed over, and skidded grandly on its back to the far end of the field. Neither man was hurt, and, as they crawled out, Bullitt muttered, "Tommy, never let the Russians know there was anything unusual in that landing." Both men nonchalantly lighted cigarettes, strolled across the field, and greeted...
...Good attitude, Bill," he said. "You've got eight feet [off the runway]. Let her down a little more. You've still got eight feet." Slowly the speeding X-3 sank down toward the speeding ground. "Five feet," said Yeager. ". . . One. Now hold her right there. Nice job. The runway is clear for seven miles ahead...
...chill of the desert dawn, a weird airplane, painted as white as a new refrigerator, was wheeled out of a hangar at Edwards Air Force Base, California, and towed at funeral-slow speed toward the level, eight-mile runway of Muroc Dry Lake. The plane was the Douglas X3, a radical, dangerous experiment in sustained supersonic flight. Most of the small gallery of onlookers-pilots, engineers and Douglas executives-had seen it many times before, and presumably most of them had confidence in it. But few could have escaped some twinges of misgiving as the strange, sharklike craft (see sketch...
...soon as the X-3 was on the runway, the elaborate paraphernalia of modern flight-testing began to unroll around it. Fire trucks sped off and took up stations at one-mile intervals along the eight-mile runway. Two ambulances took positions in the ominous line. Two F-86 Sabre jets, a photographic and an observer plane, took off, blowing clouds of dust across the field. Another F-86 already in the air circled the field and landed. Its pilot was the Air Force's Major "Chuck" Yeager (TIME, April 18, 1949), the first man to fly faster than...