Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...While I was and am today against bombing across the Yalu," Vandenberg testified, "it does not mean by any stretch of the imagination that I might not be for it tomorrow . . . Hitting across the Yalu, we could destroy or lay waste all of Manchuria and the principal cities of China if we utilized the full power of the U.S. Air Force . . . But... in my opinion we cannot afford to ... peck at the periphery as long as we have a shoestring Air Force . . . The fact is that the U.S. is operating a shoestring Air Force in view of its global responsibilities...
...share from $22 billion to $20.7 billion. Four weeks ago, the House got in its cuts, clamped on the Coudert spending ceiling (TIME, April 21) and left the Air Force some $17.4 billion, and a completion date in the far tomorrow of 1957. Just as serious, the cutbacks and stretch-outs cut down the rate of delivery of new planes in the close future: e.g., the President's cuts will deprive the Air Force of an average of 400 new combat planes per month in 1953 and 1954, and the U.S. will never get up to the peak production...
...seething corona dense clouds of hydrogen squirt out at speeds up to 600 miles a second. Every so often one of those clouds hits the earth and bathes the planet in a shower of solar gas. But earthlings are protected by bumpers of magnetic force-invisible bars that stretch from pole to pole...
...Rittenberg will lead the Yardlings, but will need some strong support from Stretch Hayes, Lee Hurd, Alan Howe, Paul Grand, Dave Ingle, Bill Chrisman, Pete Coker, and company to upset the Eli freshmen...
Yale's sophomore Mike Stanley will have a hard time repeating the double win he made indoors. Ronnie Berman hasn't been beaten this year in the 880 and somehow always manages to have enough life in the stretch to edge out his opponent. And Dave Cairns appeared to be getting back into his old form against Dartmouth last Saturday and should be able to give Stanley a good battle in the mile...