Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though it was conceived as the world's most sophisticated combat aircraft, the F-lll has flunked many of its courses-mostly in political science. Last week Congress gave the swing-wing fighter-bomber its worst report card yet. A House-Senate Conference Committee recommended that the Navy model, the F-111B, not go into production until the plane shows beyond doubt that it can operate efficiently from aircraft carriers...
...calls it a "multibillion-dollar blunder." Largely as a result of McClellan's jeremiads, Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's request for $287 million to buy 20 F-lllBs for Navy testing was rudely rejected by the committee, which approved only $147,900,000 for eight of the swing-wing ships. The higher cost per plane includes design changes and ground-support gear as well as custom fabrication of the plane itself...
Neat Feat. One area in which the F-lll has been an unqualified success is its revolutionary swing-wing design. The wings work perfectly. But while the F-lll's builder, General Dynamics, fell behind schedule trying to satisfy airmen, Navymen and McNamara men, the Soviet Union scored a neat feat of copycatting. At last July's Moscow air show, it displayed two new swing-wing combat planes, including one that had unquestionably profited from the tribulations of the F-lll. The Russians' Mikoyan-designed fighter has its air ducts placed far forward on the fuselage, apparently...
...record seasonally adjusted annual rate of $627.1 billion. The news reflected higher pay for wage earners and a reduction in unemployment. Also, last month the work week picked up, after a slight decline in June, meaning more overtime and part-time employment. Government economists predict that with the upward swing of the economy-and with the return to school of students who filled jobs during the summer-the currently unemployed will be offered an expanding work market. ∙CORPORATE PROFITS. After a sharp dip during the first quarter, profits began a comeback during the second three months of the year...
Come to the public school and listen to them." In response, a crowd of more than 1,000 gathered at the school to wait for the candidates on the ten civilian slates who were scheduled to make Quang Tri their first stop on a seven-day campaign swing from the DMZ in the north to the Mekong Delta in the south...