Word: dogfighting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Salt Lake City, teachers clamored for a "leeway" referendum to allow the school board to add 5 mills to property taxes, lost badly after a campaign that degenerated into a dogfight between pressure groups, with teachers opposing the Chamber of Commerce and citizens' committees. Observers felt that the recession weighed only lightly in the defeat. Out of several such leeway referendums in Utah this year, only one has succeeded; yet all bond issues for new school buildings have passed. The difference: much of the leeway money would go to across-the-board teachers' pay raises. A study...
...priceless-to-science" body of Laika, the Russian dog still orbiting in Sputnik II, rival spaceships battled grimly last week with every weapon still unknown to science. The futuristic dogfight took place in Buck Rogers, the comic pages' oldest and highest-flying extraterrestrial strip, which was launched into newspaper space 29 years ago by Chicago's National Newspaper Syndicate. A perennial hero to the space-gun set, Buck Rogers is flying higher than ever after falling from a prewar apogee of 136 client dailies in 1935 to a postwar perigee of 43 papers...
...cautious, scholarly H. Alexander Smith, 77, moderate Republican and his party's second-ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (after Wisconsin's Wiley). The party and the Government need "younger people," Smith explained. His long-expected decision threatened to bring on the kind of political dogfight that gentle Alex Smith always tried to avoid. Already announced for his seat is boutonniered
...Japanese book about World War II that was not a tale of defeat, I-58 sold 100,000 copies, has been followed by a spate of similar war books as well as a monthly magazine called Maru. Almost entirely devoted to eyewitness accounts of World War II actions, e.g., "Dogfight over Rabaul." Maru has become the bible of many a Japanese teenager. Wrote one young reader: "I felt an inexplicable satisfaction when I learned from your splendid magazine that although Japan was ultimately defeated, the armed forces were absolutely dominant in individual battles...
Bombers & Backlogs. Though military secrecy clouds the exact backlog and production figures, Pratt & Whitney will fly off with at least 70% of every defense engine dollar in 1957, leaving its competitors to dogfight for the remaining...