Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sudden Outrage. Kashmir is one of the world's plague spots-like Algeria and Cyprus-which can be expected to erupt with violence, or at least violent language, just before a U.N. session opens. Last month Pakistani Foreign Minister Firoz Khan Noon charged that Russian military aircraft had been allowed to land in Indian Kashmir, and added, "I consider the whole of India to be a Russian air base." India's press countered this attack with the claim that the U.S. Air Force is carrying out a "feverish buildup" in the part of Kashmir held by Pakistan...
Bedridden invalids may soon become self-sufficient with the aid of a new machine that enables them to get in and out of bed without help. Developed by an aircraft design engineer named Leslie L. Miller, the Auto-Nurse is a complicated arrangement of harness, pulleys and cables powered by a tiny (1/12 h.p.) electric motor with high gear ratio and operated from a master control in the patient's hand. By pressing a button, the invalid can raise himself gently and silently off the bed, move to left or right, or lower himself into a bedside wheelchair...
...staffed by able B.J. Cutler. Under longtime Associated Press Correspondent Don (The FBI Story) Whitehead, its Washington bureau in the past two years has turned in many a solid reporting job, such as the series last year by Tom Lambert and Robert S. Bird on the inefficiency of military aircraft procurement policies...
...part, the State Department argues that the U.S. gets seemingly little only because it has long since won most of what it wants from foreign nations. Most of the basic air agreements were negotiated between 1946 and 1948, when the U.S. was the only nation with the aircraft and the capital to operate overseas routes. Now that other nations can buy the planes and keep them flying, the U.S. must give them a crack at its own markets...
Thus, for better or worse, the U.S. must prepare for increasing airline competition from abroad. The main hope for U.S. lines is not to try to restrict competition but to outrace it by faster aircraft, lower fares, more and better flights, food and service. As in everything else, the businessman who pleases most of the customers most of the time inevitably walks off with most of the business...