Word: aloftness
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...forward. Somebody yanked the President to safety, but the Minister of Production lost a sandal (and kicked the other off as he fled), while the Minister of Defense was knocked flat. In the pandemonium that followed, Nehru seized a policeman's steel-tipped bamboo lathi and, brandishing it aloft, cried at the crowd: "Stop this uproar...
...ronautiques du Sud-Ouest (S.N.C.A.S.O.) is flying its Trident, a jet-and-rocket-powered interceptor, at supersonic speeds, while the tiny (400 workers) Leduc Co. has built an even more radical fighter with a needlelike plastic cockpit and a 143,000-lb.-thrust (at 621 m.p.h.) ramjet engine. Carried aloft on the back of a mother ship and released at a high speed, the Leduc ramjet has already passed Mach 1 in a climb, is expected to hit Mach 2 (1,520 m.p.h. at sea level...
...written into the treaty. Then, after the signing, Figl led the four foreign ministers onto the balcony of Belvedere Palace. A cheering crowd went wild when the Austrian waved a copy of the treaty over his head. Molotov, Dulles, Macmillan and Pinay clasped hands together and solemnly held them aloft. That gesture, too, brought down the house...
...made money for six years without a Government subsidy. Starting in 1929 with two eight-passenger Sikorsky Amphibians, it had added a fleet of 13 dependable, twin-engined DC-35, carried 304,000 passengers annually (without a fatality). H.A.L. passengers had some gripes; they wanted to smoke aloft, complained of too few ticket offices, and charged that H.A.L. discriminated against Asians. In 1949 CAB decided that H.A.L...
...discrimination against Asians was entirely a wartime, military measure. To get the technological jump on Trans-Pacific it replaced four of its old DC-35 with five new, 284-m.p.h., 44-passenger Convairs, costing upwards of $600,000 apiece. Trans-Pacific counterattacked by having its hostesses do hula dances aloft, set up a charge-account service, pioneered cut-rate family fares...