Word: clipper
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LaFlamme haircut is, according to the entrepreneurs, both natural and professional. It is low in back and done almost entirely with scissors because the management believes most barbers use the electric clipper to excess...
Clipped Voice. An effective anti-jamming device is a "de-emphasizing and pre-emphasizing clipper" developed by Herrick and his crew. It distorts the voice a little but at the same time makes it more intelligible and harder to obliterate...
During the week 640 pleasure-bent visitors arrived from New York aboard the luxury liner Queen of Bermuda, 1,323 more came in by Pan American clipper and other airliners. Confident that 60,000 tourists would flock this year to their shops and hotels, their pink beaches and hibiscus-hedged lanes, a few Bermudians had even given hotel prices another boost as the spring season opened...
...great Portuguese explorers. On the opposite wall, a plaque pays tribute to the foremost explorer of the modern world of the air-Juan Terry Trippe. The plaque commemorates the rediscovery of the old world by the new: the first passenger flight of Trippe and his Pan American Airways Dixie Clipper from the U.S. to Lisbon on June...
While Pan Am's President Juan Trippe proudly looked on, Margaret smashed a bottle of champagne against the Clipper America. Pan Am, which expects to put the clipper into service within a few weeks, hopes to get 19 more of the double-decked, 75-passenger monsters by late summer. With them, said Trippe, he will have "sufficient equipment to provide low-cost tourist-class service to Europe and to the Orient." Foreign governments willing, Trippe would cut transatlantic tourist rates to $225 one way and $405 round trip (present cost...