Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...airlines' best customer was the U.S. businessman to whom flying meant time, and time money. Today, like Idaho Rancher-Financier R. J. Simplot (who is aloft 800 hours each year), businessmen are finding an even better way to save time and make money: they use a growing fleet of private planes of every size and shape. For a description of the boom and what it means to the U.S. light-plane industry, see BUSINESS, Private Planes on the Rise...
...arrived for school. Most of the agents are off-duty policemen or sheriff's deputies, who can spot a suspicious stranger instantly. To buttress their memories, the detectives use tiny cameras to snap hundreds of pictures of passers-by for comparison at Bradford's frequent briefings. The fleet of patrol cars is linked by shortwave radio to the Ambassador headquarters and to local police networks. Ramfis is accompanied constantly by two Dominican officers, and all three are armed; even the houseboy in Leavenworth packs a .32 pistol. There has been one big scare so far: a man waiting...
...private aviation fleet has soared to 66,000 planes, more flying machines than the combined air forces of both the U.S. and Soviet Russia. Last year alone, 18 light-plane makers added another 6,000 craft to the fleet, and grossed a record $125 million for an 800% gain since 1951. Gas, oil, maintenance and other costs for 209,000 private pilots who fly for fun or profit added $800 million more to the business. Yet the boom is just beginning. The forecast for 1975 is a fleet of 105,000 planes logging 25.8 million hours annually...
...country controlled by international Communism. Said Dulles: "The Baghdad Pact group of countries can be confident that mobile power of great force would, as needed, be brought to bear against any Communist aggressor." By the five pact members, this was taken to mean instant support from Sixth Fleet planes and SAC bombers...
Last week this bureaucratic boondoggling angered the White House, which regards a commercial jet fleet as a transport reserve needed for national defense. It gave CAB a swift kick in the pants, told it, in effect, to give the lines immediate emergency relief. Promptly. CAB offered a 6.6% interim fare boost by a vote of three to two (Vice Chairman Chan Gurney voted against the boost on the ground that it should be 10%). If accepted, as expected, domestic trunklines will get a 4% raise, plus an additional $1 on each ticket, along with the hope that real relief will...