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...cooled engines. He helped start Wright Aeronautical Corp., went on to found Pratt & Whitney, whose lightweight, air-cooled Wasp engine was the first big U.S. advance, brought the air age roaring in. To meet its requirements, Rentschler's United Aircraft put together United Airlines as the first coast-to-coast carrier, pioneering a new era of transportation. The Government made Rentschler give up his airline, but nothing could stop him from turning into the greatest airplane-engine builder. In World War II his United Aircraft Corp. made 363,610 Pratt & Whitney engines, nearly 50% of the total...
...advice from the expert was followed, brought no complaints from viewers. Expert Helffrich, 44, is NBC's director of continuity acceptance, which means he is a censor with the accent on the positive. Aided by a coast-to-coast staff of 35, he passes on all radio and TV material that goes out over the network. But he has transformed the censor's formula ("You can't do this") into the editor's ("This...
First came a spell with a Gilbert & Sullivan road show. Then she starred in a coast-to-coast Merry Widow company, moved on to a grand opera touring company (63 Micaëlas in Carmen, 45 Violettas in Traviata), where, before long, she had to learn how to intercept passes from forward tenors without missing a note. For a while, she learned a role a month for TV's Opera Cameos, finally hit the big time two seasons ago when she sang Donna Elvira in the San Francisco Opera's Don Giovanni ("the most exquisitely sung...
Dreams. General Motors' 1956 Motorama opened a four-month, coast-to-coast run in Manhattan with five new "dream cars," plus the gas-turbined Firebird II (TIME, Dec. 26) and the Cadillac Eldorado Brougham, a 1955 experimental model scheduled to go into production in August. The aluminum-roofed Brougham (base price: $8,500) is G.M.'s answer to Ford's Continental Mark II, and features such gadgets as a driver's seat that pivots outward for easy access. Highlights of the dream cars: Chevrolet's Impala, a five-passenger hardtop version...
...FREIGHT BATTLE between American Airlines, Slick Airways and Flying Tigers is cutting transcontinental flying time. Flying Tigers, which recently bought ten Lockheed Super Constellations (TIME, Oct. 3) to match a purchase of five by Slick, will trim its east-to-west schedules to clip nearly three hours off coast-to-coast freight runs. New York manufacturers will be able to ship cargo as late as midnight, have it on West Coast store shelves before opening time next morning...