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...denounced Joe McCarthy's claim of entering the Marine Corps as a "buck private," because he entered as a commissioned officer; that he (Mr. McCarthy) resigned from the Marine Corps months before his comrades in arms, and the war with Japan; further, that he claimed to be a "tail gunner," when he was only a ground intelligence officer...
...transcontinental airline business, a magic, dollar-bearing word has cropped up in the last few months. The word: nonstop. Roaring eastward with a howling tail wind last week, a new Douglas DC-7 belonging to American Airlines hit top speeds of 480 m.p.h., made it from Los Angeles to New York in a single 6-hr.-10-min. jump, for a new commercial speed record. While American was hanging up its record, United Air Lines impatiently took delivery of its first DC-7 so that it, too, could get into the transcontinental race. At stake is the coast-to-coast...
...banks of the parliamentary stream. I once spent some time in the tropics ... I noticed the crocodile, the king of the tropical rivers, lying in the mud, apparently inattentive to what was going on but, if excited, springing up and, in a paroxysm of rage, lashing his tail and extending his giant jaws-a very formidable creature indeed." Millikin answered: "I do not mind being compared to the crocodile. If I were not in a pleasant mood, I might think of even more obnoxious animals with which to compare the Senator from Illinois...
MCDONNELL Aircraft Corp. grounded its Demon jet fighters for which the Navy has placed large orders, while it investigates three test-flight accidents. One plane exploded in midair, another landed with a dead burner, and a third had a fire in the tail section, all in nine days. Pilots escaped serious injury...
...land vertically (helicopters are relatively slow) may be over. It released photographs of two strange experimental fighter planes, the Lockheed XFV1 and the Convair XFY-1, both of which are designed to take off straight up, without the need for runways of any kind, and to land tail-down in a similar vertical attitude. Both planes were photographed sitting vertically on their tails (which are equipped with small casters) in take-off position. Both are apparently able to raise and lower themselves simply by virtue of tremendous lift in their counterrotating propellers. The fighters, powered by turbo prop engines, would...