Word: expression
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Western Air Express (now Western Airlines), a pioneer airline, was flying radio-less Fokkers made of cloth and plywood between Los Angeles and San Francisco. Weather procedure before take-off was to call the next stop on the telephone and ask how the weather looked ahead. Often a field that had looked fine was socked in when the flight arrived or unexpectedly bad weather was encountered en route. "They had not considered," explains Rossby, "that weather may come from sideways...
...spirit of the Christmas issue which transcends the more technical matter. The publishers express their feelings on the title page, "For all those folks associated with us, we take this opportunity, Good Friends, to thank you for the courtesies through the years...
...often appeared to be an ill-sorted melange of law, theology and physics students, each with his specific interest, none with a particularly large group of associates from which to choose his friends. The House would surely both widen his scope of interest and give him more opportunity to express ideas on his own subject to breathless undergraduate diners...
...snip as much as 9? per mile from their 30?-per-mile highway costs. By going piggyback, says the Rail-Trailer Co., which solicits business for the railroads, one New York-Chicago trucker was able to chop his trip costs so much that his profit margin quintupled. Eastern Motor Express, Cooper-Jarrett, Mid-States Freight Lines, Spector Freight System, and Denver Chicago Trucking Co. currently use piggyback for some 10% to 20% of all their long-haul trips. Kansas City's Riss & Co., one of the biggest U.S. truckers, ships 600 trailers weekly by piggyback. As a result...
...Eisenhower team will probably find Governor Herter much more attuned to its policies than was Mr. Hoover, and one suspects, on the basis of his record, that he will express a more internationally oriented attitude in the inner councils of the Administration than did his predecessor. While Herter does not possess the experience nor outlook designed to make him another Chester Bowles, he is at least free of the burden which former President Hoover must have been...