Word: frills
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other two productions are Angela and Butterflies Are Free , another commercial formula comedy and the only likely financial success so far. Only six more productions are scheduled for the rest of the season- four musicals, a new Neil Simon comedy, and a work by Irish playwright Brian Frill...
Jaded by pastel planes and miniskirted stewardesses, bored with imitation-fur lap throws and delicatessen sandwiches, airline passengers are being enticed with a new frill. Since April, Trans World Airlines has been trying to attract business with an idea as cold as cash and as warm as a smile. It is offering employees a chance to exchange courtesy...
...three fuselage doors. To offer performance comparable to STOL (short takeoff and landing) planes such as the $85,000 U.S.-made Helio Twin Courier, the Islander has outsized wings that permit takeoffs in a bare 520 ft., landings at 65 m.p.h. All in all, the Islander offers only one frill; though one big engine would theoretically offer reliability enough, the plane has two 260-h.p. Lycoming engines to allow for the customer confidence factor. Measured by customer response, that was a wise decision...
...SUPERSONIC TRANSPORT. The SST is much more than a flying frill. The $142 million that Congress authorized for it this year will go far to improve the U.S.'s worst international financial problem: the balance of payments. Aircraft make up the nation's second biggest export (after food), and the U.S. has sold $2.4 billion worth of commercial jets to foreign buyers. The SST market will be much richer-estimates run to $40 billion over 20 years. Hoping to crack it, the Soviets and a British-French consortium are already building SSTs, and the U.S. has to hustle...
...criticize Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson as dictatorial. A liberal on most issues, he has been conspicuously economy-minded during the Kennedy and Johnson Administrations. Proxmire often chips at public-works projects and appropriations for the space program, has attacked the Government-sponsored SST (supersonic transport) project as a "frill...