Word: aircraft
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mile-range limit laid down last fall (TIME, Dec. 10) by Defense Secretary Wilson. Then he had a few words for the Pentagon high command: "Their basic interests, the future they're seeking for themselves, is outlined by the money and jobs they expect to get in the aircraft industry. This is especially true in the Air Force...
HOWARD HUGHES plans to manufacture French twin-jet Caravelles for T.W.A. at his Hughes Aircraft Co. plant in Culver City, Calif. He will also buy 15 British-built Vickers Viscount four-engined turboprops for T.W.A...
Reaching Hands. The static line was hopeless. Next the aircraft crewmen put out a rope. Flugum grabbed it, and they pulled him three feet toward safety before the force of the airstream loosened his grip. They lowered the rope again, and Flugum tied it around his waist. Then, through a sweating two hours, the crewmen inched Flugum up with rope and static line. Finally he was at the hatch, his elbows almost in. A crewman seized each hand, a third grabbed at his fatigues. Flugum could not help himself, the sweat-slick hands of the rescuers could not hold...
...Lieut. General (U.S.A.F., ret.) Elwood Richard Quesada, 53, former vice president of Lockheed Aircraft Corp., was tapped as White House aviation adviser to replace Major General (U.S.A.F., ret.) Edward Peck Curtis, 60, who returns to Eastman Kodak Co. as vice president. "Pete" Quesada, who was wartime commander of the Ninth Fighter Command in Europe and boss of the thermonuclear bomb tests at Eniwetok in 1951, will quarterback the Eisenhower Administration's plans to work out a traffic control system for the commercial jet age. Last week the Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee took the first big step toward...
...little U.S. companies. Sears, Roebuck & Co. owns big blocks of stock in such suppliers as Whirlpool-Seeger Corp., Florence Stove Co., and Armstrong Tire & Rubber Co.; Gulf Oil has a 12% interest in Texas Gulf Sulphur, which supplies Gulf with sulphur; Olin Mathieson Chemical has 25.8% of Marquardt Aircraft and 50% of rocketmaker Reaction Motors, for which it is helping develop rocket fuel. And by successfully going back 30 years to trip Du Pont, trustbusters had won the right to try any company for things it did in long years past...