Word: crashes
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Lost Chances. By dragging its feet for more than two years, the Administration has already lost any chance of putting a U.S. supersonic into commercial service before the Concorde. Even to put a supersonic into service by 1970, the U.S. must gear up a crash program -and crash programs are notoriously costly and inefficient. The irony of the U.S.'s lag is that if Eisenhower and Kennedy had not clipped the B70 supersonic bomber program, the U.S. would be far in front in the supersonic race, could have adapted a commercial jetliner from the military prototype...
Perhaps the unhappiest example of Memorial Day slaughter occurred near Cornwall, Conn. A sports car in which two young men were leaving a beer party climbed a grade along Bunker Hill on a clear afternoon, somehow skidded into the wrong lane, crashed head-on into a sedan. In the sedan, Albert Wilklow, 42, and his entire family (Wife Georgette, 37, Sons Albert Jr., 14, Frank, 12, and Daughter Paula, 10) were returning to their home in Torrington, Conn., after a day of fishing at a state park. All five died in the flaming crash. So did the occupants...
Just one year to the week after the stock market shuddered through its worst crash since 1929, new records are being set by that intricate, delicate and unpredictable entity known as the U.S. economy. The spectators are surprised, the analyzers are rewriting their textbooks, and even the captains of U.S. business are somewhat amazed. The exasperating, exuberant 1963 economy, whose performance had for months been dismissed as puny and inadequate, is off and running in what the experts now believe will be the longest period of prosperity since the Korean...
Most businessmen consider the last 10% or so of capacity in most industries almost inevitably inefficient, agree that producing at full capacity leaves no room for flexibility and frequently leads to costly breakdowns and power failures, crash expansion programs and industrial slovenliness. Chairman Charles ("Tex") Thornton, 49, of Litton Industries, which has done so well in keeping ahead of the competition with new electronics products and processes that its sales have increased an awesome 13,000% in the ten years of its history, believes that "to properly modernize U.S. industry, there should be expenditures of $100 billion to $300 billion...
Wells on Wheels. Spurred by the discovery of hidden Communist arms caches and reports of Red supply drops by parachute in the northeast, Premier Sarit Thanarat has begun a crash program to counteract Red influence in the area. Earmarking $300 million in development funds, he has already sent out two of a planned twelve mobile development units to drill fresh-water wells, bulldoze new roads, and dispense medical care. Under the guidance of Thailand's sharpest and most aggressive young civil servants, who once shunned the northeast as a kind of Siberia, schools are being built and electric generators...