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...Washington, Air Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington finally made formal announcement of a fact that had already leaked: the Bell rocket plane XS-1 had flown "much faster than sound."* The exact speed, said Symington, is "an interesting figure...
...fiscal 1949 and 1950, said Air Force Secretary W. Stuart Symington, the Air Force would spend $1,345,165,000 for new planes. New Navy orders swelled the total to nearly $2 billion for 3,366 planes. It was much more than the industry had expected. About half the business went to airframe manufacturers, half to engine and equipment makers...
...Sentner organized a local at St. Louis' Emerson Electric Manufacturing Co. The following year he led the plant's 2,000 workers in a 53-day sit-down strike, the second longest sit-down in U.S. labor history. But when handsome Stuart Symington (now Secretary of the Air Force) took over as Emerson's president, labor relations began to settle down. Symington and Sentner sized each other up; each found the other a forthright, levelheaded man of his word. Working together, they put into effect a successful labor-management plan and a profit-sharing program. Emerson, swollen...
...action, Congress rejected the recommendations of Defense Secretary James Forrestal, who had suggested a 66-group Air Force and a "balanced" military establishment; e.g., more ground troops to support overseas air bases. Forrestal never made too good a case. Air Secretary Stuart Symington, pleading for the 70-group program, had made his. It was the first time in eight years on the tricky playing fields of Washington that Forrestal had lost the ball on a fumble...
...Gamble. Next day, Secretary of the Air Force W. Stuart Symington appeared, dutifully read a statement endorsing Forrestal's 66-group compromise, then gave it as his opinion that anything less than the modernized, 70-group force would be "gambling with security." The Russians, he declared, have more and better jets than the U.S., a total air force many times 70 groups. Said Symington: "If you don't start building the Air Force now, you won't get it until the Russians have the atomic bomb . . . Time is rapidly running...