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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supersonic 6-58 bomber, originally scheduled to begin operation last year, was designed to replace the obsolescent 6-47. But the newly extended stretch-out means that the $2.2 billion spent on the 6-58 may never lead to more than two or three wings, and they may be obsolescent before they are operational even in small numbers...
...Edsel died, Ford got ready to put more pep into the Ford line. Next month Ford will begin deliveries of a 360-h.p. engine that is topped among U.S. stock cars only by the 380 h.p. in the Chrysler 3OO-E. Ford's aim is to outdo both Plymouth (330-h.p. top) and Chevrolet (335-h.p. top) with its new engine...
...will review the vote of approval in its first meeting after spring vacation, when the proposed coffee house will have operated for several months. The establishment will begin operations at the beginning of the second semester...
...week later, Gene did decide to attend lectures for two days at least. Each of his professors made a special point of greeting him and saying (in more or less the same words) "Congratulations. Now you will begin to learn again." They sounded to Gene like television announcers, but he decided that it would be fun, occasionally, to go to classes. He particularly liked to pretend that the students were dominoes when, in unison, their heads and hands toppled down to inscribe the lecturer's latest truth...
...intentions led him to discount the warning and leave the front. On the evening of June 5, Meyer caught the second part of the message: "Blessent mon coeur d'une langueur monotone [Wounding my heart with monotonous languor]." Following this broadcast, Canaris had told Meyer, the invasion would begin within 48 hours. When the excited Meyer burst into the Fifteenth Army chief's bridge game, General Hans von Salmuth ordered his troops alerted, then picked up his hand, telling his fellow players, "I'm too old a bunny to get too excited about this...