Word: darting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...dart-shaped B70 is an airman's vision: designed to fly three times faster than sound and 15 miles above the ground, it could serve as a nuclear bomber, a satellite launcher, or a six-jet civilian transport that could span the Atlantic in an hour. But what would be its strategic value in the missile age? "Doubtful," answered Old Infantryman Dwight Eisenhower last January, as he chopped the B-70's development budget for fiscal 1961 from a requested $385 million to only $75 million, barely enough to build two stripped-down flying shells. Last week, just...
Autos. For the first time since 1957 Chrysler Corp. managed to make a third-quarter profit due to the sales of the compact Valiant and the Dodge Dart. While only $1.4 million, it compared with a loss of $34.2 million last year. Nine-month earnings were also ahead, $2.84 per share this year v. $2.73 last year. On the other hand, earnings of General Motors, hit by high tooling costs for its new compact cars, dropped 34% in the third quarter from 47^ per share to 30^ on a 5% sales increase. Nine-months earnings also ran behind a year...
Both the Dodge Dart and the medium-priced Dodge have been sharply restyled, have a sleeker silhouette and a recessed grill...
...Base in California's sprawling, sundrenched Mojave Desert. "This is fantastic," White cried. "This is really fantastic up here." At that moment, he was an estimated 131,000 ft. above the earth, nearly 25 miles. He was flying a rocket-powered X-15, North American's Black Dart, which only eight days before had set another record-traveling at the fastest speed in history, 2,196 m.p.h...
...reader into the recesses of his feeling, partly because, as in his novels, he frequently lets the richness of his language blur meaning entirely, and sometimes because his line of thought (especially in the longer poems) becomes fuzzy or even careless. But he can throw a sharp defining dart...