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First to testify was Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott, who put up a dutiful but unenthusiastic* defense of Wilson's decision to cut the Air Force buildup target from 143 to 120 wings. The goal of 120 wings by December 1955 was only an "interim" matter, he emphasized, and it might well be raised once Eisenhower's appointees to the Joint Chiefs of Staff had completed their planned review of the whole U.S. military position. And while the Air Force is to be allowed only the manpower and air bases necessary for the 120-wing "interim" goal, aircraft...
...July of 1947, Special Committee 31 of the President's Radio Technical Commission for Aeronautics undertook the selection job. The Transition Phase built around electronic equipment that had already been designed, was to be finished by 1953. This month, halfway through the target year, the Transition Phase is far from over. But pilots have more guides than ever before to get across country and into airports...
...miles away, Atomic Energy Commission scientists got ready to turn on the remote-control firing apparatus. Then, at 8:30 one morning this week, the first atomic artillery shell ever fired whished from Amazon Annie's 280-mm. (11 in.) barrel and hurtled on its way. Above the target area, an atomic fireball blossomed, then a purplish cloud, that whitened as it rose swiftly into...
When a U.S. educator thinks of raising money, his first target is a U.S. corporation. But do corporations have the legal right to give away their stockholders' money? Last week, in a suit brought by a group of stockholders against A. P. Smith Manufacturing Co. (valves and fire hydrants) over a $1,500 gift to Princeton, a New Jersey court answered...
...porkchoppers" (unionese for bureaucrats) for the all-out campaign. C.I.O. Boss Walter Reuther thinks that the recent practice of going after small companies first, in trying to organize an industry, is wrong. He aims to hit the big ones and expects the little ones to fall in line. Prime target: the chemical industry, and specifically, Du Pont, in which 75% of the employees belong to independent (company) unions...