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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Civilian growth has been slow because, for all their land-on-a-dime convenience, helicopters are costly to buy, expensive to operate, relatively slow-moving (best cruising speed: 100 m.p.h.) and apt to be grounded on foggy days. All that is being rapidly changed, however, by competition for Government orders and bolder engineering to meet requirements in Viet Nam. The industry is pushing along helicopter development to produce craft that go faster, haul more, operate longer and require less maintenance-all to its eventual commercial benefit...
...Survival. Americans now buy books from some 165,000 retail outlets, ranging from Chicago's giant Kroch's & Brentano's, which lists 150,000 titles, to the corner drugstores with their paperback racks. Of these outlets, 2,062 are traditional bookshops that sell both hardbacks and paperbacks, 352 are quality paperback stores (which do an $18 million-a-year business) and 882 are discount houses, department stores and supermarkets ($52 million annually). In addition, some 130 book clubs run up sales of $145 million a year, a trifling $3,000,000 below the general booksellers. Total...
...deodorant. Still, a mass-consumption society is a long way off. For one thing, four-fifths of the country's production remains in industrial goods; for another, the average wage of $ 151 a month does not go much beyond bare necessities. The East German worker must skimp to buy coffee at $9 a lb., a TV set at $500, or the cheapest 26 h.p. car at $2,000. Last year 62,698 cars were made for a country of 17 million people; naturally, the waiting lists are long...
...system into a loose academic homework, supplementing it with some formal instruction. Apparently, this instruction was at very thorough; it ran four months of the year, and the final examinations (oral) were would to have been scandalously easy. Faculty members collected their salaries directly from students, who had to buy tickets for each course they took...
Legislation to authorize Massachusetts to buy the Bennett Street transit yards the site for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library was introduced into the General Court (state legislature) yesterday...