Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...possibility for future Prime Minister. In Defense, Denis Healey has aimed his expertise at the tactical and technological aspects of the military. Roy Jenkins, after 16 years as a backbencher, was given the Aviation Ministry, where his most controversial task has been to wipe out the costly TSR 2 jet bomber. At first, Jenkins' ax was also aimed at the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airliner. Wilson has since changed his mind about the Concorde, and Jenkins is engaged in exploring other Anglo-French aviation schemes as well. Wilson insists that the 20,000 workers thrown out of jobs...
Rising high in the center stands a bronze fountain, girdled beneath by the 22-ft.-long Scroll of Isaiah; the fountain sends a jet of water through an opening in the dome to baptize the exterior tile. Says Kiesler: "It is a purification, just as the Dead Sea sect purified themselves in water thrice daily." Below the sanctuary is a crypt of rubbly red rock, lined with relics that reveal the life of the 2nd century Jewish rebels who fought the Romans from their caves. Emerging from the sanctuary, the visitor travels along a 150-ft.-long roofless corridor...
...lure of this high volume has brought several major companies into the stereotape market, is increasing pressure for standardization. RCA Victor, which will record tapes for Ford, has selected a cartridge system developed by Wichita's Lear Jet Corp., recently demonstrated it in Manhattan to 40 other recording companies in a pitch for adoption of an industry standard. On the strength of Ford orders, Lear has set up a separate division in Detroit to manufacture its tapes and cartridges. Motorola, which is building the dashboard players for Ford, is already working on the next stage of cartridge stereo-tape...
...poly automobiles, which bear the company abbreviation, Saab. Few outside of Scandinavia are aware that Saab is also one of the Continent's largest aircraft producers and a bulwark of Sweden's defense effort. The company has built about 90% of its country's 700-plane jet air force, the world's fifth largest-and soon it will increase even that impressive percentage. It has just been chosen by the Swedish government to build 800 Saab-designed Viggen multipurpose jet fighters, a force that will form Sweden's main line of defense during the 1970s...
Profits in Jets. Viggen will bring new prosperity to the already thriving 28-year-old company. Last week Saab announced that its 1964 sales rose to $221 million, its earnings to more than $3.8 million, both new records. Auto sales, which account for about 60% of the company's revenues, increased to a record 43,011 units, are expected to climb to 50,000 this year. Saab is still producing and profiting from its Draken-35 jet fighters, the current mainstay of the Swedish air force, and the piston-engine Safir trainers that are used by Sweden and five...