Word: conway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conway, Ark. Oldsmobile Dealer J. B. Silaz Jr., who complained that he could not get enough cars, actually wanted to operate "as a new-car broker rather than as a dealer," i.e., sell to bootleggers...
...Rolls-Royce Conway by-pass jet engine, in which part of the air is passed around the combustion chambers directly into the tail cone, thus producing greater, more economical thrust, is highly praised by U.S. engineers. The Vickers Viscount airliner now flying on U.S. air routes has done so well that some 240 have been sold. Vickers is currently working on a bigger model called the Vanguard...
They reported that a group of five Lowell area alumni, headed by James F. Conway '15, high school vice-principal, posted bond for Hird...
While at the police station, the student continued, he was denied permission to call his Senior Tutor, John Conway...
Stars of the show were Britain's newest jet engines. De Havilland's Gyron has 15,000 Ibs. of static thrust, is claimed to be the most powerful in the world. The Rolls-Royce Conway, a "bypass jet" with 13.000 Ibs. of thrust (TIME, July 4), was shown at Farnborough for the first time...