Word: wings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wading In. But last week ambitious Walter Reuther, no easy man to contain, needed an endorsement neither from Murray nor any other outsider. In the 19 months between conventions, he had worked tirelessly to sap the strength of his left-wing opposition. At first, the results were poor. But as anti-Communist feeling rose generally throughout the U.S., it rose among U.A.W. members, too, and Reuther made the most...
...accused U.A.W. left-wingers, led by slick Secretary-Treasurer George F. Addes, of following the Communist line, of trying to railroad the Red-tinged farm equipment workers into the U.A.W., of making big loans out of the U.A.W. treasury to win support from wavering left-wing locals...
...replace this left-wing triumvirate, the U.A.W. got a Reutherite secretary-treasurer, Emil Mazey, 34, tough and trigger-witted co-director of U.A.W. operations on Detroit's East Side; and two Reutherite vice presidents, plodding Richard Gosser, 46, of Toledo, and organizing expert John Livingston, 39, of St. Louis. Like Reuther, Mazey-who would henceforth be the U.A.W.'s No. 2 man-once held a card in the Socialist Party. He is a veteran of U.A.W. picket lines; as a G.I. he led a war's-end campaign to bring the boys home early from the Philippines...
Aircraft designers had a wondrous week: ¶ In El Segundo, Calif., the Navy introduced its new Skyrocket, the first man-carrying plane (as distinct from guided missiles) powered by both jet and rocket energy. Built by Douglas, the Skyrocket is a swordfish-shaped, back-swept-winged sister ship of the Navy's Skystreak, present holder of the world's speed record (650.6 m.p.h.). Douglasmen hoped that it would make air history by breaking through the sonic wall-i.e., by flying faster than the speed of sound (about 765 m.p.h. at sea level). ¶ In St. Louis...
Last week thousands crowded the museum for a look. They were not allowed to see all the treasures at once. Skittish Director Colt had only 30 of the 600 on show. Until the museum gets a new, burglarproof wing, the rest will stay hidden in vaults at the bank...