Word: heliport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...build an even bigger project on Manhattan's West Side. This time, the idea is to redevelop 40 acres between Pennsylvania Station and the Hudson River, create a $300 million-$500 million city of the future, with a vast merchandise mart, a permanent World's Fair, a heliport, a glittering television city, a parking lot for 20,000 cars, and a 1,750-foot "Freedom Tower" for, as Zeckendorf put it, "defense observation and other activities." With a target date of 1960, Zeckendorf announced that New York Central Chairman Robert R. Young had offered to help out with...
...organizer. Between fishing trips and serving as king of the Mardi Gras, he found time to establish the Ochsner Clinic, which he built into a "Mayos' of the South," and a hospital operated by the Ochsner Foundation. The hospital is so modern that it has its own heliport, largely to receive casualties from tidewater oil rigs. Along the way, Lung Surgeon Alton Ochsner has become a leader in the medicosurgical fight against cigarette smoking as a cause of lung cancer. He makes as many speeches (professional) as a man who says he is not running for the presidency...
Other young Davy Crocketts in coonier coonskins around the U.S. have set off a resonant boom and what looks like the beginning of a free-for-all trademark squabble (see BUSINESS' The Wild Frontier) ONE sunny day last week a helicopter landed on the heliport atop the Sankei Kaikan, the daily newspaper Sangyo Keizai's building. Out stepped Edgar R. Baker, managing director of TIME'S international editions. Quickly, pretty Takarazuka girls presented him with a bouquet as thanks for TIME'S story about Takarazuka (in Music, Jan. 3), the city whose principal industry is innocent...
...military men, the helicopter is fast becoming as useful and ubiquitous as the jeep. In Washington last week, the Defense Department made plans for a heliport beside the Pentagon to permit aerial taxi service between bases in the area; overall, some 6,000 military helicopters do every job from air-sea rescue to artillery spotting. But so far, civilians have gained few of the advantages of helicopters. To date, only 300 commercial helicopters operate around the U.S., even though the potential market is enormous. Predicted CAAdministrator Frederick B. Lee: "In ten years there will be 286 daily helicopter movements between...
...Long regarded as an intruder at regular air bases, the military helicopter is coming into its own at Fort Eustis, Va., where the Army is constructing the world's largest helicopter airport. Built with an eye toward experimentation in loading and maintenance techniques, the $970,000 heliport looks like a superhighway cloverleaf intersection, boasts two 600-ft. asphalt runways (for heavily laden 'copters) and a giant, circular taxiway, surrounded by eight dust-free warmup "pads." In this specialized setting the Army hopes to devise methods for mass operation of cargo and troop-carrying 'copters with something close...