Word: compartmentation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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On Douglas Aircraft Co., Inc.'s airport at Santa Monica, Calif. last week, Test Pilot John Martin climbed into the silver belly of the newest Douglas transport, the DC-7. For an hour, Pilot Martin and his three engineers gave last-minute checks to the 600 dials and indicators...
¶ In Dearborn, a new $80 million Engineering & Research Laboratory was opened, giving Ford its first research facilities as up-to-date as G.M.'s. In it, hundreds of scientists and engineers will not only seek ways to improve cars, but will work on pure research. ¶ A new...
Model 1920 or just off the assembly line, it is a spindly Victorian-looking machine with a rubber bulb horn and a wheezy engine. Its thin-spoked front wheels, poking forward like the forelegs of a praying mantis, can-by police stipulation-negotiate a U-turn in a 25-ft...
Designed primarily for the tourist trade, the seven-car ETR 300 can carry 160 reserved-seat passengers in luxury-a dining car that seats 56, a bar, souvenir shop second observation car in the rear and three hostesses, who speak four languages between them. Each compartment has a radio and...
Near the end of his 1938 study trip, Bober journeyed into Italy and almost into the hands of the Gestapo. Misunderstanding the Italian order to declare all the money he had, he declared his Italian currency only. He could have been accused of leaving the country with more money than...