Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Jet-Age Hobby...
...fear of Cuba's Fidel Castro, Trujillo has spent $50 million abroad for arms, including French tanks and Mystere jet fighters, and his usually solvent budget is under strain. Vice President Joaquin Balaguer admits that commercial credits against next year's sugar crop are high (reportedly $40 million). Two prime sources: the local branches of The Royal Bank of Canada and The Bank of Nova Scotia. The cost of living, long stable, jumped 20% from July to October...
Healy, 62, accepted invitations from the Air Defense Command to witness an interceptor missile shoot called Project William Tell II at Tyndall Air Force Base (near Panama City, Fla.)-and, incidentally, to absorb some good-natured press-agentry that would help still public complaints over loud jet noises and chimney-rattling sonic booms...
...mayors, says Motel Owner Fred Faulkner, "had to be helped to their room." And when an officer arrived later to give them some information about Project William Tell, Healy made three requests: he did not want to be bothered with any of "this William Tell stuff," he wanted jet rides arranged, and he wanted transportation set up for their departure for Vermont...
Making the international rounds in a jet-propelled era of personal diplomacy, the world's statesmen are necessarily accompanied by swarms of newsmen, to the extent that in their very number they have come to pose a perplexing problem. Where only three correspondents, one from each U.S. wire service, went along with Vice President Richard Nixon on his 1953 trip to Australia and Asia, last spring more than 80 followed him to Russia, eliciting from the Vice President the complaint that he could not easily hold background briefings, a Nixon practice, for so large a number. And when Soviet...