Word: hangars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five Navy-run bus lines. Wives hustle the children off (on any of eight Navy-run school bus lines) to the world's largest Navy-operated dependents' school (1,000 pupils), then go around to shop in a cut-rate hangar-sized commissary (stocking electrical appliances, rock-'n'-roll records and quick-frozen Little Bo Pizzas shipped from the U.S.), or in any of the seven handy branch stores (total 1955 sales: $4,100,000). On the way home, they can stop for Scotch or bonded bourbon ($1.20 a fifth) at a Navy-run liquor store...
...week's end airline officials decided that there was nothing to do but wheel their brand-new plane into a hangar and take it apart...
...when his car stalled. By the time he had walked back to the lodge again, his right ear was painfully frostbitten. The next morning, at Seattle's Boeing Field, his plane screamed to a stop on the runway as it was bowling toward a takeoff. Back to the hangar rolled the plane, with a defective engine, and Stevenson transferred to another airliner. By that time, said an aide, "the governor was taking odds we'd never make...
...accomplished by deflecting jets of air and gas in the desired directions. His electric models, which simulate the control problem of a full-scale aerodyne, fly very well. Attached to an electric cable, to supply power and control signals, they rise on an even keel, circle around a hangar, hover indefinitely and land without a jolt...
Henebry borrowed money and sold stock to raise $750,000, got a 20-year lease on 2½ acres around his old repair shop, set to work on the Skymotive Terminal. It includes a 400-ft.-long hangar (space rental and normal services: $575 a month for a DC-3, $55 for a Beechcraft Bonanza), a modern two-story terminal building with lounge, office space ($28.50 to $80 a month), conference room, flight-planning room, kitchen and bath facilities...