Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Indiana. There's always blood on the floor, and the guy whose blood it isn't just happens to be on top-temporarily." Last week the Wabash River was running bank-full of political blood, and the man on top in a statewide political brawl was a swift-footed, swashbuckling lawyer-politician named George North Craig...
...satellite can observe the atmosphere from its top better than surface-bound men can study it from its bottom. It can also observe meteors as they arrive from space, including the swarming "micro-meteors" that may be a serious obstacle to long-range space voyaging. These tiny, swift particles are believed to exert a powerful effect on the earth's weather, and they are almost impossible to observe from "down deep in the atmosphere...
...unpalatable truth is that the celebrated $1.37 billion-a-year R.A.F. is now depending upon U.S. Sabre jets, plus about 1,500 obsolescent British jets (Gloster Meteors, De Havilland Vampires and Venoms), for the air defense of London. The Fighter Command's swept-wing Supermarine Swift is grounded; its delta-wing Javelins and its PIs are critical months from service, and so are antiaircraft guided missiles. "The R.A.F.," said the Spectator bitterly, "is relatively worse off now than it was at the time of Munich. At least in 1938 it had one Spitfire...
...Among other Illinois companies with staggered directors' terms: Armour & Co., Great Western Railway, Sunbeam Corp., Swift & Co., U.S. Gypsum...
Porter M. (for Maxwell) Jarvis, 52, was elected president of Chicago's Swift & Co., replacing John Holmes, 63, who becomes board chairman and remains chief executive officer. Holmes, the first non-Swift to be president, replaced Harold Higgins Swift, 70, who becomes honorary chairman. Jarvis majored in animal husbandry at Iowa State College ('24), later took a meat-packing course at the University of Chicago. There his thesis on packaged lard caught the eye of a visiting executive from Swift, who offered him a trainee job with the company. In 1933 he became assistant to Holmes, then vice...