Word: bendix
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, scientists of the Weapons Systems Evaluation Group will load the brain with all available data on both planes: speed, range, altitude, rate of climb and fire power, along with such variables as weather, time of warning and accuracy. Then like a giant Bendix washer, the brain will whirl into action, stirring, scrambling, sorting, poking, prodding and reassembling the figures until the answer pops out next year, all set to be neatly starched and ironed. The only thing the machine won't do is make a decision...
Cinemactor Jimmy Stewart, 41, who gave up being Hollywood's Most Eligible Bachelor five weeks ago, retired from another fast-moving field. After his souped-up F51 won the Bendix Trophy at Cleveland this week, he announced that the ship was for sale: "I can't afford both a wife and a plane...
...Life of Riley. Moose-jawed Cinemactor William Bendix, who has been Riley for four seasons, has Hollywood movie work to do, will be replaced when the show moves...
...trouble, said K-F, had been high-cost inventories, high overhead, price cuts, and a strike at Bendix Aviation Corp. which had stopped K-F production for two weeks. But K-F's real trouble was that the auto shortage was about over, and its share of the market had slipped from 5% in 1948'$ first half...
...Hurley has been in & out of the airplane business ever since he got a job as engine inspector for the Army's air service during World War I. Later he formed his own sparkplug concern, then moved in as vice president in charge of manufacturing of the Bendix Aviation Corp., where he remained for 13 years before joining Ford...