Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered to tool up for full-scale production of its huge, swept-wing B-52 jet bomber, a bigger, faster version of the B-47. Intended as a replacement for the giant, cigar-shaped B-36 (and as a rival of a new sweptwing, all-jet B-36), the swift new heavy, powered by eight jet engines, will have almost the same range and bomb load as the B-36, and a lot more speed. If all goes well, the B-52 will make its maiden flight next fall, start coming off production lines twelve months later, six years after...
...boom in helicopters was set off by their breathtaking rescue work in Korea. In eight months, the "flying egg beaters" plucked 1,700 wounded and stranded men off the battlefield, saving them from death or capture. Commanding officers have found helicopters a smooth, swift substitute for the jolting jeep for front-line tours. Last week the helicopters found another customer. The Army, hitherto restricted to small craft (under 4,000 pounds), got permission to fly the big copters, will form transport companies with 23 helicopters each, specially equipped to carry troops in amphibious, mountain and jungle warfare...
...board's three industrial members (Reuben Robertson Jr., president of Champion Paper & Fibre Co.; J. Ward Keener, vice president of B. F. Goodrich; Henry Arthur, manager of commercial research at Swift & Co.) were for permitting an 8% rise over wages in effect on Jan. 15, 1950. Such fringe benefits as pensions and production raises would be included in the 8%. A firm cutoff in wage boosts had to be made somewhere, or the whole anti-inflation program would come unhinged. Ching and the other two public members (Clark Kerr and John Dunlop, both economics professors and veterans of Government...
Some stories make large demands on the credulity of their audiences. Jonathan Swift, in the interest of satire, asks his readers to imagine little men six inches high. "The Company She Keeps," in the interest of glamour, asks the audience to imagine Lizabeth Scott as a female parole officer. It is just too much...
...added, "is one of the occupational hazards of being a general. MacArthur grossly miscalculated . . . the forces against him. And no nation in the spot we are now in can string along with a leader whose ill-considered decision to launch the offensive of November 24 precipitated and magnified the swift disaster...