After weeks of conflicting reports on the relative strength of U.S. and Russian air power (TIME, May 30), Air Force Secretary Harold E. Talbott announced last week a 35% acceleration in production schedules for Boeing's 600-m.p.h. B-52 bomber. This would give the U.S. eleven heavy jet-bomber groups (500 planes in all) by 1958 instead of 1959.
Boeing, which has already built some 30 of the giant planes, and is turning them out at the rate of one a week, will speed up production at both its Seattle and Wichita, Kans. plants. Originally, Boeing...
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