Word: breakthroughs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...quiet pride, he announced that the U.S. had secretly developed and successfully tested an aircraft that is far in advance of any ever seen before. Called the A11, the sleek, razor-winged interceptor flies higher and faster than any jet aircraft in history, promises a major breakthrough toward the futuristic world of flight at more than three times the speed of sound...
...clothiers' real frustration is suits. A major breakthrough was scored ten years ago with the introduction of lightweight fabrics that could be tailored, and today the sale of summer suits exceeds that of winter suits. In fact, the heavy winter suit is obsolescing fast. When heaters became standard equipment in every car, men no longer were out in the cold long enough to bother with the real woolly type...
...School Committee's decision was considered a breakthrough for the NAACP, which has been seeking a meeting with the group since August...
...first ten years tripled the island's gross national product to $1 billion; the next ten raised it to $2 billion. Last week, totting up the figures after 21 years of Munoz and Bootstrap, Puerto Rico's Economic Development Administration could report a breakthrough to a G.N.P. of $2.2 billion. Unemployment is down to 12.8%, and while the population grows by 2.4% each year, per capita income is now $740 annually -low by U.S. standards, but still the second highest in Latin America, surpassed only by oil-rich Venezuela. Things are so much better that migration of Puerto...
...real surge in air freight came only after the airlines began flying the big passenger jets, whose cargo compartments alone can carry as much freight as a DC-4 air freighter. But the breakthrough in air freight is only beginning. Before mid-1965, U.S. airlines will be flying 30 DC-8F and Boeing 707-321C jet freighters, each of which in one week's normal schedule can car ry coast to coast enough freight to fill 20 boxcars. Using prepacked freight pallets, special lift mechanisms and aircraft floors with built-in rollers, crews can load and unload...