Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite labor pains, strikes and the travail of reconversion, the U.S. is already close to full employment in peacetime-months faster than anyone expected. This encouraging announcement was made by the Committee for Economic Development last week...
Rested Trees. The trees, untapped by the Japs for years, were ready to ooze latex far faster than they normally did. But production will be comparatively small until the managers of the big estates, who were chased out or imprisoned by the Japs, return. There were 1,400 in Malaya before the war. Now there are only 120. Many are still recuperating in England and Australia from the starvation of concentration camps. Nevertheless, production of natural rubber (not nearly as vital at present as tin to the U.S.) is expected to be up to 25 or 30% of normal...
What spurred them all was "Connie's" proved performance-a much-improved performance over any existing airliner's. Connie will fly 43 passengers from New York to London at 300 miles an hour in 13 hours, faster than any other transport now in production; airlines which didn't have Constellations feared that travelers would ride on airlines which did. Lockheed's sleek new beauties had quietly started a postwar revolution in air travel...
Before long, all U.S. flag lines will be flying Constellations across the Atlantic and on to Moscow, Calcutta, Bombay. Many a foreign line will also be flying them, cobwebbing the steadily shrinking globe with faster routes. Soon there will be few places more than 40 hours from New York...
...same way, Bob Gross took on the job of building the Constellation. Howard Hughes and T.W.A. President Jack Frye wanted a transport plane which would fly farther, faster and carry a bigger load than anything in the air. When Consolidated Aircraft turned down the job, Lockheed accepted it. Then the Army ordered Lockheed to build it for the Air Forces; T.W.A. would have to wait. Thus, when the Army canceled its contracts after V-J day, Lockheed had the plane ready for the airlines...