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...partly due to the replacement of small and old DC-3s by new and bigger Constellations. T.W.A., which has 20 new Constellations on order, has also earmarked some $15 million for 30 new Martin 4-0-4s to take care of its medium-and short-haul traffic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: On the Beam | 4/3/1950 | See Source »

...suruku (three-screened pan). He spun and twisted it, then turned over the screens and looked. The coarse screen held a 4-carat diamond, the middle screen 15 or 20 diamonds ranging from .8 to 3 carats, the fine screen 120 diamonds of about half-carat size. That first haul was worth about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diamonds | 3/20/1950 | See Source »

...cranberry grower on the Cape runs a tiny railroad on his farm. It is the last two gauger in the country. He picked up the antique's parts a few years ago from a Maine junk dealer, put them in working order and now uses the line to haul cran-berries. The local railroad-bugs intend to visit him sometime this spring and spend an afternoon examining his models and riding his ancient train...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Railroad Fanatics Build Models, Start New Club | 3/16/1950 | See Source »

...most cases of this sort, Cunningham added, the car is parked on a narrow street, and the snowplow cannot got through. The police will haul the car off, even if it is in a non-restricted area...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Police Will Tow Cars Blocking Snowplows | 2/24/1950 | See Source »

...Marc Fisher-Galati, an ex-paratrooper, tried to pull shut the partially opened door of an Eastern airliner. The door, hinged at the bottom, fell open. Fisher-Galati plunged forward, was saved when his leg caught in a chain supporting the door. One of the crew tried vainly to haul Fisher-Galati back into the plane. He hung head downward for about ten minutes until the plane made an emergency landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRANSPORTATION: Man Missing | 2/20/1950 | See Source »

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