Word: transportable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boeing Airplane Co.'s engineers lined the runway at their Renton, Wash, plant one sunny day last week to see their swept-wing 707, the first U.S. jet tanker-transport, get ready for her maiden flight. As they watched, Chief Test Pilot Tex Johnson gunned the four engines from an idling whine to a full roar, let the big jet sweep down the runway at 80 m.p.h., then eased on the brakes to test the 95-ton plane's ground response. After the first ground run, Tex gave his opinion: "A lovely ship." But Tex spoke too soon...
...Hearts & Minds. For many years the South', aware that it might be brought under Supreme Court scrutiny, has justified its segregation policy as giving "equal but separate" facilities to white and Negro children. This phrase was used by the court in an 1896 case involving Jim Crow transport. This week's opinion flatly rejected "equal but separate" as a guiding principle in education...
...four-jet tanker, the 707, was rolled out last week at Renton, Wash. The 707, which can be converted into a commercial liner, will have a cruising speed of 550 m.p.h., about 100 miles faster than the grounded British Comet. The first U.S. entry in the international commercial jet transport race is powered by four Pratt & Whitney J57 engines similar to those on Boeing's B-52 heavy bombers...
...Behemoth Creature. Earthquake was Captain James B. McGovern, 32, of Elizabeth, NJ. He flew P-40s and Mustangs over China with Major General Claire Chennault's Fourteenth Air Force, knocked down four Jap planes. When Chennault formed his Civilian Air Transport (CAT) to help the Nationalists against the Red Chinese in China, Earthquake signed up. Once the transport he was flying was attacked by Chinese Communist fighters over the Shantung peninsula, but "they missed," Earthquake explained laconically. Later, flying gasoline to the hard-pressed Nationalists in Kunming, he made a forced landing on a river sandbar in Communist territory...
...unanimous vote of the Beverly Hills, Calif. city council, retired Lieut. General Harold L. George, 60, boss of the Army Air Force's globe-covering Air Transport Command in World War II and now a director of a Los Angeles electronics firm, was elected mayor for a one-year term...