Word: messerschmitt
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...Basque terrorists brought a whiff of anarchy to Spain, and that was all that the fading, right-wing Falange needed to try a last lunge for power. The blue-shirted Falangists had been useful to Franco during the Civil War, when they were, as the German aircraft manufacturer Willy Messerschmitt described them, "merely young people for whom it is good sport to play with firearms and round up Communists and Socialists." But when Franco set out to earn Spain international respect and a handhold in Europe, the aging blueshirts became an embarrassment...
About 40 U.S. companies have started a four-day week of nine-and ten-hour days; they report that productivity is up and absenteeism and turnover are down. In Germany, Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm has achieved much the same results by allowing its workers to choose, within limits, their own hours of work. The men themselves arrange their schedules without disrupting the production process. The practice is so successful that 50 other German companies have copied it, and unions are asking for a raise because of increased output...
...sports plane, and kept on flying through college days at Stanford, the University of Michigan and Yale Law School (LL.B., '40). During World War II, Halaby helped organize the Navy's test-pilot school at Patuxent River, Md., and flew the world's first combat jet, a captured German Messerschmitt 262. Later, he took off in the U.S.'s first operational jet, the Bell YP-59A, determined to fly higher than any pilot from the rival Army Air Corps had flown. "I reached 46,000 ft., and that might have been a world record. Nobody knows, because it was wartime...
...years ago, a series of similar crashes shook the entire German military establishment. In 1965 alone, 26 of the Lockheed-designed interceptors, built under license by Messerschmitt, fell out of the sky. The wreck rate was a disastrous 83.6 crashes per 100,000 hours of flying time; the international norm is between 15 and 20 crashes per 100,000 flying hours. One problem was that the Germans turned what had been designed as a fairweather, high-altitude interceptor into a low-altitude, multipurpose fighter-bomber and tried to fly it in the tricky weather of Central Europe. Another difficulty...
...whole Cabinet except Attorney General John Mitchell (who was addressing the American Bar Association convention in Dallas), 44 Governors, 50 Senators and Representatives, and ambassadors and charges d'affaires from 83 lands. Other guests included Nixon Friends Bebe Rebozo and Billy Graham, Aerospacemen Wernher von Braun and Willy Messerschmitt, and a nostalgic gallery of showbiz figures that included Rudy Vallee, Cesar Romero, Edgar Bergen and Gene Autry. Aviation Pioneers Howard Hughes and Charles Lindbergh were invited, but neither broke his long, self-imposed seclusion to come...