Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Atlas missile to a bucket of paint; the consumer can be a Strategic Air Command grease monkey in Morocco, an Air Force fighter squadron in Tokyo, a missile-testing crew at Cape Canaveral. Adds Rawlings: "Since 1951 we've just about equipped the Air Force with jet equipment. We've written contracts for $93 billion and spent about $83 billion. For that we've got an Air Force that's maintaining the peace in the world...
Radioactivity has been found before on Air Force jets, the Atomic Energy Commission admitted, but this was the first time that a commercial jet had been involved. The amount of contamination was not considered large enough to present any threats to passengers, but might endanger mechanics who were exposed to it for long periods while servicing the plane. Though the Public Health Service had not yet decided what precautions should be taken, Pan Am washed down the rest of its jets, may institute a system of spot checking jet flights for any trace of radioactivity...
...newsmen got no official help in keeping up with the duke. Though the prince is traveling by private jet plane, propeller transport and yacht, no British reporter-not even one who is accredited to Buckingham Palace-was allowed aboard. Following as best they might, the newsmen could expect only rudeness or a quarterdeck tongue-lashing when they got close. The duke has been especially testy about the swarms of Indian photographers. At New Delhi he asked irritably, "Who are all these people?", and turned to Prime Minister Nehru to remark cuttingly: "I thought there was a film shortage in your...
...JET FARES to Europe will rise. Airlines are working out agreement to hike prices of one-way first-class tickets $20, to $475, and one-way economy fares...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 26--A $297 million program to improve airports to jet age standards was recommended today by a House committee which topped President Eisenhower's proposal by about 50 per cent...