Word: 600s
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Dates: during 1958-1958
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...airline, become the first to shift its line completely to jets. American has ordered $365 million worth of new planes to be delivered by 1962: 25 Boeing 707s for long-distance flights, 25 shorter-range Boeings, 35 Lockheed Electra turboprops for short hops, and 25 Convair 600s, which, if the plane lives up to its billing, will be the world's fastest commercial jet (635 m.p.h...
...knows for sure what will happen to the "700" schools. Both buildings are clearly inadequate. The city is talking of building four new "700" schools for boys, and perhaps another for girls. But, in time, most school officials believe that new "700" schools would fill up just as the "600s" did, and the job of educating New York's problem pupils would be as knotty as ever. "Either we get enough money to run the schools the way the public and the law say," shrugs Assistant Superintendent Joseph C. Noethen; "or we end up running hospitals and institutions...