Word: wing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stories underground. As it started up, along with another 35,000-ton unit (built by United Engineering & Foundry Co.) in the same plant, the Air Force marked the halfway point in its $279 million heavy-press program aimed at cutting costs and speeding production of such aircraft components as wing spars and landing-gear supports. Five of the big new presses are already in production ; five more will be finished by year...
...Lillie '35 first deived into the archives of the State Houses, Country Courthouse and City Hall to complete plans for the buildings. Occasionally, he had to rely on wills which described parts of houses "the northeast living room to may son Harvey the two bedrooms in the West wing to my daughter Mary...
Armed with a baby atomic bomb, the pilot whose fighter bomber used to pack a 1,000-lb. bomb under each wing for an attack on a troublesome artillery battery could now devastate an army's reserve-supply area. The artillery commander who might have aimed an 8-in. howitzer at a crossroads could now aim a similar weapon, fire an atomic shell and wipe out the heart of a whole infantry division. A Navy torpedo plane could launch an atomic torpedo that could lift a ship out of the water; a destroyer could fire an atomic depth charge...
This year the President presented Congress with a sound legislative program, but he has often failed to give it effective support. Several of his proposals have not yet faced Congress. Of these his $3,500,000,000 foreign aid bill should meet particularly rigid opposition from right wing members of Congress. If the President's strong and effective stand on the Bricker Amendment indicates a beginning of the more powerful leadership he will need to cope with such opposition, then it is significant and encouraging...
Actor Stewart, as always, is an infinite gangle of charm. He combat-flew his way up to full colonel and command of a B-24 wing in World War II, but to watch him shyly fumbling, in his usual screen style, at the controls of the world's fanciest yo-yo may give less comfort to his friends than to his country's enemies. Actress June Allyson, who looks so normal it almost seems she was not born but arrived by statistics, has been Jimmy's wife before (in The Stratton Story and The Glenn Miller Story...