Word: half
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Corp.'s F-27 Friendship, the company's jet-age answer to the problem of replacing the hundreds of aging DC-35 still hauling passengers and cargo on U.S. airways. At $590,000, Fairchild's new aircraft will carry almost twice the load (40 passengers) at half again the speed (more than 280 m.p.h.) twice the distance (1,700 miles), and accomplish the task in pressurized, air-conditioned comfort. Says Fairchild President Richard S. Boutelle: "Every DC-3 in the air is fair game for us, and we want to replace them...
...business. The J83 engine soon proved so promising for light jet aircraft that General Dynamics' Canadian subsidiary, Canadair Ltd., chose it as the power plant for the prototype of its new CL-41 trainer, and Lockheed will also use it for its Jet-Star executive transport. Fairchild added half a dozen other lines, from electronic guidance systems for missiles to an aluminum bridge much like a plane wing, in hopes of winning a slice of the highway-building program. While the Government puts up most of the money to build a new bridge, the trouble is that the states...
...last year because of a heavy write-off on the F27. Going into 1958, Fairchild is still writing off on the F27, and will probably show a net loss for the first six months. But the company expects military and civilian orders to increase so fast during the latter half of the year that it will be able to show a new profit for 1958 as a whole. Once the writeoffs are finished, Fairchild hopes to race ahead rapidly in the profit column...
...well as fight. Irish society-provincial yet picturesque, with its deep conflicts between Celtic and Anglo-Saxon ways, between priesthood and peasantry, its sense of tragedy and the merciless compulsion of its members to explain themselves literately at the top of their voices-is itself a book already half-written. These days there is nothing like the Troubles going on in Ireland, but there is still a spot of trouble-enough for a headline or two and many a novel. The latest, A Terrible Beauty, is a good new potato in the fertile patch...
...everything except his own sex life. Sex, typically, is represented by Doris, a lower-class ball of margarine-and-fun; also typically, the hero's wife is a virtuous bore with a distressing number of ailments. Huxley writes of women with the ruminative repulsion of a male spider half-digested in mid-honeymoon. When Mrs. Hutton is poisoned, it looks like Hutton's work. Actually another Huxley horror woman has done the deed. Hutton, the reader feels in the end, was unjustly but well and truly hanged...