Word: wing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about the future. As awed as any other layman, he looked over Boeing's record-breaking B-47 Stratojet with General Ike Eisenhower, impishly poked his glasses into a C82 Flying Boxcar where photographers were waiting to snap his picture. Crawling out of the tailless YB-49 Flying Wing, the President commented crisply: "Think I'll buy it." (Nobody reminded him that the Air Force had canceled orders for more because of presidential budget cuts...
...guests-many of them Congressmen-settled into the wooden stands, the Air Force cut loose with everything it had. F-80s whooshed by, skimming the ground, stunting singly and in tight formation. The spectacular eight-jet Flying Wing took off and zoomed upward, followed by the six-jet B-47, trailing clouds of smoke from 18 rocket units. In a race of bomber v. fighter the B-47 Stratojet walked away from the F-80, then was outrun by the swept-back F-86, which has already clocked a record 670.981 m.p.h. For a roaring finale the Air Force sent...
...Council and the Council controls is through an ex-officio member sitting in at meetings. It seems impossible that the Committee, with its simple regulatory duties, should need any supervision; but apparently it does. It is up to the Council to secure minimum efficiency in all groups under its wing, and it must do this in spite of the number of such groups. The Council must supervise, even when supervision seems ridiculous...
Bill Garrity will probably return to his right wing position on the first line, thereby putting the Crimson back at full strength. Garrity aggravated his broken toe in the Dartmouth game and didn't play at Princeton over the weekend...
...team will be further strengthened if Doug Anderson's sprained ankle heals enough to allow him to play the entire game. The cast over the third line wing's broken wrist doesn't bother his playing, but the ankle injury, sustained in the Dartmouth game, kept him on the bench during most of the Princeton game...