Word: tullahoma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Most of us have a great deal of larceny in us," drawled the Rev. Charles ("Stony") Jackson of Tullahoma, Tenn. "The fact that I am an ordained minister [Disciples of Christ] does not make me a saint." In 1957 Jackson wrote to The $64,000 Question, said he planned a book about quizzes (working title: Hucksters and Suckers), asked for help. The producers took the hint. Back came an invitation for Stony to audition as a contestant. The category chosen for the pastor: great love stories. After producers fed him the romantic answers in "screening" sessions, he rolled...
...design the missiles of the future, whose speed will be respectable on the astronomical scale, requires wind tunnels of a new order of size and speed. A group of these monsters, whose jointed shells look a little like primitive mollusks, is nearing completion at Arnold Engineering Development Center, at Tullahoma...
BASEBALL MANUFACTURING is in a serious slump, brought on by a 40% drop in the number of minor leagues since 1949 (present total: 33). Sales of baseballs are so low that Wilson & Co. closed its 50-man Schenectady plant, will meet the demand from its Tullahoma, Tenn. plant...
Cornell's tunnel is an experimental model. A much larger one copied from it will be built at the Air Force's Arnold Engineering Development Center at Tullahoma, Tenn. Details of construction are secret, but the objective is not: to learn to make missiles behave like meteors, yet survive unmelted to complete their missions...
During the eight weeks of the MacArthur hearing, the President had generally maintained a heavy-breathing silence, broken only by a few acid press-conference comments. But by the time he flew off to Tullahoma, Tenn. (pop. 7,521) this week to dedicate the Air Force's new 34,000-acre Arnold Engineering Development Center,* the hearing was sputtering to a close. Harry Truman took the opportunity of letting his critics know what he thought of them. Burden of his speech: everything the Administration has done in Asia was just exactly right; people who disagree are at least misguided...