Word: aircraft
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...Irish Air Lines' transatlantic operation is a route extension for Ireland's flag airline which has been operating for 22 years between Ireland, the United Kingdom and the European continent. In 1957 it carried more than 457,000 passengers over its routes, operating a fleet of 20 aircraft and serving more than 20 major cities in ten nations...
...Nixon airlift" of two companies of the zoist Airborne to Puerto Rico last fortnight showed what STRAC's advance guard could do. But the snag about STRAC as a whole is that it is dependent upon the Air Force's inadequate force of troop-carrier aircraft to be able to fight anywhere in any strength. Within a limited war's crucial first 36 hours, the Air Force could lift no more than one battle-ready division to the Middle East, no more than a regiment to Southeast Asia. It would take the Air Force and the Navy...
...chief, says that the booster of Sputnik III would need 500,000 Ibs. of thrust. Dr. Herbert York, chief scientist of the Defense Department's Advance Research Projects Agency, thinks that as little as 200,000 Ibs. might be enough. German-born Dr. Walter R. Dornberger, of Bell Aircraft Corp., compromises for 440,000 Ibs. This is not far above the thrust (360,000 Ibs.) of the Air Force's still unproven Atlas and Titan missiles...
...price tag* as one of the finest U.S. cars ever produced. Wall Street remembers Cord as the golden negotiator and operating man who put the Auburn Automobile Co. in the black, and held substantial interests in American Airways, Lycoming Manufacturing, New York Shipbuilding and Stinson Aircraft before he sold his holdings for $2,632,000 during a 1937 fight with the Securities and Exchange Commission. California knows Cord as the man who developed a fabulously profitable eight-block stretch of Beverly Hills' Wilshire Boulevard, owns the 31-acre Pan Pacific Auditorium, has a huge chunk of Santa Anita track...
Wall Street, which has long since discounted much of the bad news, put on a buying spurt. Led by steels, rails, oils and aircraft, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average climbed two points higher during the week to hit a new high for the year at 462.56, nearly 43 points better than the recession low of last October. Poor earnings were easily shrugged off. At the annual meeting of Radio Corp. of America, President John L. Burns gave 1,275 stockholders of the world's biggest electronics company the bad news about a 29.7% first-quarter decline...