Word: swiftly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...concept of integrated Western defense had given the alliance an embarrassing hole in the center. Recently NATO's European commander, U.S. Air Force General Lauris Norstad, requested a do-or-die interview with De Gaulle, spent an hour and a half documenting NATO's argument that the swift air speeds of modern war rule out separate national air defense systems in an area as small as Western Europe. To make sure he got De Gaulle's full attention, Norstad borrowed Dwight Eisenhower's official interpreter, Lieut. Colonel Vernon Walters, who speaks eight languages, including a French...
...Plautus (254?-184 B.C.) In his exalted soaring into the unforgiving air, man in his bird has reaped all the riches he ever dreamed of - the poetry of flight itself and the victory over time and space. But in the swift tumble of progress called the Air Age, he has wrought more hard truth than poetry. The truth: the skies over the U.S. - busiest of all air borne nations - are roaring with an astonishing complex of featherless birds. Not counting 22,000 military aircraft, there are operating in the U.S. no fewer than 72,000 planes, ranging from lightweight, single...
...year ago there were only three U.S. airlines operating pure jets, and their pace-setting handful of the swift new giants invariably took off with nearly every seat filled. Today, ten U.S. carriers fly a combined fleet of 92 Boeing 707s and DC-8s, with more being rapidly delivered. Despite the increased competition and the fact that stormy January, in the words of a TWA officer, is "one month the airlines would like to forget," last month's load figures show the jets still astonishingly popular with travelers...
...swift has been the pace of nationalist pressure in the Belgian Congo, and so harsh its violence, that by last week shaken Belgian leaders (who a few years ago boasted that their economic paternalism would long postpone political freedom) were resigned to an offer of full independence for the Congolese this year. At a round-table conference with 81 African delegates in Brussels, the Belgians agreed to a timetable calling for elections beginning May 16 to choose a Congolese Parliament, to be followed by a declaration of independence on June...
...stockholders, there was good news on all sides as company after company raised dividends. International Business Machines hiked its quarterly dividend on common stock from 60? to 75?. Swift & Co., the nation's largest meat packer, declared a special dividend of 25? a share in addition to its regular quarterly dividend of 40? a share. Directors of American Tobacco Co. voted an extra dividend of $1 on top of its regular $1 quarterly dividend. American News Co. raised its quarterly dividend from 40? to 50? a share, Johnson & Johnson from 20? to 25?, Associated Dry Goods Corp. from...