Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conventional war games are played on maneuver-area battlefields with sweat, dust, mud, and all the roaring, dangerous machines of modern war. Last week at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, quiet men in a quiet room were playing another sort of strategic war game. The only battle noise was the click of switches as electric impulses flashed through intricate circuits...
...grass went Citation, the world's first million-dollar horse. His owner, Mrs. Warren Wright, announced that Big Cy will be retired to stud at Calumet Farm in Lexington, Ky. Stud...
...committee's top ten as of June 1: General Motors Corp., $3.5 billion in defense contracts; Ford Motor Co., $1 billion; Boeing Airplane Co., $960 million; Curtiss-Wright Corp., $840 million; Lockheed Aircraft Corp., $674 million; Republic Aviation Corp., $549 million; General Electric Co., $500 million; United Aircraft Corp., $490 million; North American Aviation, $481 million; Bendix Aviation Corp., $475 million...
...Super-Connies are 18.4 feet longer than present ones, will carry 88 passengers instead of 60, have a 40% bigger payload. The first planes, which will go to Eastern in three months, will cruise at 319 m.p.h. Later models, with new 3,250-h.p. Wright engines, will cruise at 350 m.p.h...
...Wright Morris. A quiet little horror story about Mother & Father Ormsby and their average bad marriage (TIME...