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...first charge to be answered was whether anybody had benefited personally or politically by the choice of the B-36 (TIME, June 6). In a letter he delivered personally to Chairman Vinson, Air Secretary Stuart Symington categorically denied this "basic innuendo." Every airplane the Air Force had ordered, wrote Symington, and every step in the B-36 program had been approved by the nation's top air commanders. At no time had "any higher authority attempted to recommend in any way the purchase of any airplane." As to reports that his own efforts in behalf...
...Secretary W. Stuart Symington, under whose regime the B-36 had been developed (by better power plants, etc.) from a slow but long-range aircraft into the fastest, longest-ranged, high-altitude bomber the air arm has ever owned. Van Zandt implied that there was some kind of skulduggery behind the Air Force's decision to concentrate on the B-36. He also implied that there was a plot afoot by Consolidated to absorb its unsuccessful competitors (for airplane contracts) and that, after that, Symington would resign to become boss of the great combine. Symington ridiculed the charge. Said...
Speaker Sam Rayburn: "I'll believe Stu Symington is a crook when he comes up here and tells...
...fourth week in office he ordered the Navy to scrap its biggest dreamboat, the $188 million supercarrier, United States, and ended naval aviation's dream of striking at the heart of any enemy with the atomic bomb. The strategic bombing role would go to Secretary Stuart Symington's Air Force...
...Christmas, the great Berlin airlift was six months old. By then, it had carried 700,000 tons of supplies to besieged Berlin. That meant an average of 3,800 tons in an average of 550 flights a day (one-third by Britain's R.A.F.). Last week, Air Secretary Symington said that in 1949, when new planes are put into operation, the daily total can be doubled. So far, 17 Americans and seven Britons have been killed in airlift accidents...