Word: crafted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this market. This fall Cessna, which now manufactures seven private planes ranging in price from $7,000 to $60,000, will introduce an eighth, the Cessna 210, in hopes of grabbing an even bigger share of the market. The 210 is the first high-wing, single-engine private craft with a retractable landing gear. It cruises at 190 m.p.h. Price: about...
Highest-ranked of the practitioners of this tricky craft is a little (5 ft. 1 in.) Californian of 52 named Edith Head, boss designer at Paramount since 1937. In her autobiography The Dress Doctor (Little, Brown; $3.95; written with Jane Kessner Ardmore) Edith gushily suggests that a designer must drop names as fast as she picks up stitches...
...Airlines, with five 707s operating across the U.S. nonstop to Los Angeles, reported a 96.2% load factor v. the average 66%. The nine Lockheed Electra turboprops delivered so far boast average loads of nearly 80% on nights from New York to Chicago and Detroit. Together, the two jet-powered craft boosted American's February business to an alltime record of 364 million revenue passenger miles, some 8% better than last year at this time. Eastern already has 18 Electras in service, and reports loads 30% to 50% better than the average for piston-engined craft...
...organization, and the employers who have found the teamsters a solid if difficult union with which to do business have not moved for a revolution which might bring in the unpredictable. The little businessmen who have been hit by the thuggery and extortion which comes so easily into a craft union like the teamsters are almost powerless to do anything...
...KNOT-SHIP design has been ordered from Grumman Aircraft by the Maritime Administration. The 100-ft. test craft, weighing between 50 and 100 tons, will use hydrofoils, completely submerged winglike structures that raise the vessel's hull from the water, cut down resistance...