1954: Aviation

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During 1954 the aircraft manufacturing industry adjusted itself to the changes in emphasis on procurement of various aircraft types intended to modernize the air forces and to the modifications in the program resulting from the cessation of hostilities in Korea. Some of the cutbacks affected the... ...