Word: dulleses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The first commercial airport to be designed specifically for jets, Dulles and its mobile lounges are the creation of the late Eero Saarinen. He was a thorough man. When he was asked to submit a design, Saarinen sent out researchers armed with stop watches and counting clickers to "see what...
On Stilts. Washington's Dulles International Airport, opened for business last week, is a gleaming glass and concrete monument dedicated to the abolition of the dread Last Mile in jet travel. The roof is a concrete hammock slung between rows of gracefully leaning concrete "trees"; everything else is glass...
The secret, if it proves as workable as its inventors hope, is the mobile lounge-a fat-tired monster that rolls regally over the landing strip like a parlor car on stilts. A few minutes before takeoff, passengers are ushered into the lounges, which fit snugly against the terminal building...
Each of these upholstered Trojan horses costs a staggering $232,000 and carries 90 passengers. It takes two to fill up a giant jet. Dulles will have 20 of them. In disembarking at Dulles, travelers will go through a reverse process, but the lounge does not have to be turned...
At the dedication of Washington's $110 million Dulles International Airport, some 50,000 people gathered to stare at the soaring lines of the Saarinen-designed terminal building and honor the memory of the man for whom the airport is named: onetime Secretary of State John Foster Dulles. President...