Word: 4s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flew back to the U.S. with the news that he was buying a whole fleet of British turboprop transports, expects to start operating them by next April. He bought three Vickers Viscounts, has an option on 37 more, to replace most of his Constellations, DC-3s and DC-4s. Total price: $45 million...
...medium-distance routes such as Capital has from New York and Washington to the Midwest. On European routes its vibration-free performance and relative silence have lured many a traveler from piston-engine planes. While operating cost per hour will be slightly higher than for Capital's DC-4s, the actual cost per seat-mile will be less owing to the Viscount's 115-m.p.h. greater speed. Sample new schedule: 1 hr. 31 min. between Cleveland and New York compared to the present 1 hr. 50 min. run. Says Carmichael: "The Viscount will be the most profitable plane...
Donald P. MacDonald'4s of Cambridge will be awarded the Maimonides Award of the Greater Boston Medical Society for worthiness, of character, John B. Thomas, of Hurtford, Conn., receives the Massachusetts Medical Society Prize...
Sharing the honors with their heavier compatriots, the lightweight varsity crew recaptured the Goldthwait Cup, absent since '4S, as they won over Yale and Princeton in Saturday's Tigertown regatta. The victory marks the 12th time Harvard has held the cup, compared to Yale's nine and Princeton...
...Both lines will also benefit in equipment. Northwest, which had trouble with Martin 2-0-2s (TIME, April 23), and has now sold or leased them, has a fleet of ten Boeing Strato-cruisers to kick into the fleet. In addition, Northwest and Capital would pool 49 DC-4s, 35 DC-3s, and five Constellations (with seven more on order by Capital...