Word: carrier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...battling for a prize, the New York-to-Miami run, estimated to be worth up to $5.5 million annually to the line that gets it. The run has long been the possession of Eastern and National. Last April, a CAB examiner recommended that in the "public interest" a third carrier (he recommended Delta) be added. There is no doubt that a third carrier is badly needed; even in the offseason, as at present, travelers must often wait two or three days to get seats...
...Senator J. Glenn Beall. since Pan Am has promised to revive Baltimore's Friendship International Airport, if certified. Florida's ex-Governor Fuller Warren "begged for five minutes." spoke ten, predicted that "hundreds of Eastern's Miami employees" would be out of work if a new carrier was added to the route. He gestured feelingly at two rows filled with silent, blue-shirted Eastern employees, who had come up to the hearings on their own hook (according to the pressagents) to ' protect their jobs...
...Navy and its planemakers, supersonic air war poses a tough question: how to build a jet hot enough to fight all comers yet cool enough to land on short carrier flight decks. Last week the Navy thought it had an answer. Off San Diego, a slim, stub-winged fighter swung in behind the carrier U.S.S. Bon Homme Richard and eased gracefully onto the canted flight deck. The plane was Chance Vought's supersonic F8U Crusader. The new jet had already landed successfully on the supercarrier Forrestal's big 1,036-ft. deck; now it proved that it could...
...range, a service ceiling of 55,000 ft. Its top speed with a Pratt & Whitney J57 engine (more than 15,000 Ibs. of thrust with afterburner) is close to Mach 2 (1,320 m.p.h. at 30,000 ft.) in level flight. What helps make such speed possible for a carrier plane is the Crusader's stubby, sharply swept wings: they are ingeniously hinged, can be tilted upwards to act as enormous flaps on landing, increase lift and slow the plane to around 115 m.p.h. for carrier landings...
Said the majority decision: "There is now no rational basis upon which the separate but equal doctrine can be validly applied to public carrier transportation." But the court, taking its pace from the Supreme Court's doctrine of "deliberate speed," postponed any order to stop bus-line segregation, and explained that when one came it would apply only to Montgomery...