Word: elwood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Electra's O.K." So said Federal Aviation Agency Chief Elwood R. Quesada last week as he lifted the 259-mile-an-hour speed restriction he had imposed on the plane nearly a year ago after two crashes took 97 lives. The FAA had taken improved Electras, their engine mounts and wings strengthened to eliminate the gyroscopic resonance (i.e., vibration) that had torn the wings off two planes, and then put them through spins and power dives in what Quesada called "probably the toughest flight check...
Investigators from the Federal Aviation Agency, Civil Aeronautics Board and FBI arrived like an army at the crash sites. From Dayton, Ohio, where he had just delivered a speech honoring the Wright brothers, FAAdministrator Elwood Quesada sped to New York to direct the investigation. The answers to all the dark question marks would come only with careful sifting of evidence, but educated guesswork by trained observers already pointed...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 8:30-10 p.m.). A rerun of the 1958 TV adaptation of Harvey, with Art Carney as the harebrained Elwood P. Dowd...
...masterminds of baseball's American League put their masterminds together in Manhattan's Savoy Hilton Hotel, decided to award their Washington, D.C. franchise to none other than retired Air Force General Elwood Richard ("Pete") Quesada, 56, now Federal Aviation Administrator. Longtime Baseball Fan Quesada must quit his Government job to organize the club, which will fill the vacancy left when the unwinning Senators team moved to Minneapolis-St. Paul last month. Estimated cost of the franchise: $3,500,000. Says Quesada: "I don't have that, but I've got backers...
When a Lockheed Electra plunged 62 persons to their death in Boston Harbor fortnight ago, Administrator Elwood R. Quesada of the Federal Aviation Agency pointed the finger of blame at the flocks of starlings that populate the runway areas of Boston's Logan International Airport. Last week investigators found preliminary proof to indict the starlings, indicated that a flock of 10,000 to 20,000 starlings slammed into the Electra 25 seconds after it left the ground...