Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's Chance Vought XFSU-1 tighter, Marquardt Aircraft Co. has developed a new gadget to take care of this sticky situation. It is a "ram-air power unit," weighing less than 50 lbs., that can be popped into the air stream if the engine stops. Air blowing through it spins a turbine at 6,000 r.p.m., and the power developed (25 h.p.) provides electrical current for the airplane's radio. It also keeps pressure in the hydraulic system that works the controls and landing gear. With the little turbine spinning outside the fuselage the pilot can call...
...Little Singers of Paris have been a unit since 1907, inducting youthful recruits from working-class families as fast as oldtimers were mustered out. Eventually, they acquired a fine home in Paris, where more than 60 of them now live full time and are put through their rigorous musical training. At first, the youngsters sang only Gregorian chants and music by Palestrina and other austere polyphonists. By now they have relaxed enough to sing White Christmas, Danny Boy and She'll be Comin' Round the Mountain. The choir claims to be the most traveled in the world, with...
...Force unit, perennially the smallest of the three services, showed an exceptional rise this year over the past two. Its freshman class of 37 is 21 more than the sophomore class. There are only seven juniors in the unit, but a high number of seniors--37. All juniors and seniors in AFROTC must agree to be flight candidates...
Under its new commander, Col. Waldo B. Jones, the unit went all out this fall to increase its size. It improved its brochure, and set up an exhibit in Burr Hall...
Faced with a surplus of fine backs, Jordan's major problem remains his second line, which is becoming "more unified and more cohesive as they play together," he said. "But they still have a long way to go before they catch up to our first unit," he added...