Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Correspondent Wilde sat down with veteran Jet Pilot Risner between bombing missions of the F-105 squadron he commands, and for hours they talked about the airman's role in the war. In the three days following the interview, Risner led three bombing and strafing missions over North Viet Nam, one of which was rated as perhaps the most successful air strike of the war. To get the rest of the story, the three reporters sought out other warriors in key positions, working much of the time under combat conditions...
Although Toepfer does not favor adopting the College's one-day "cliff-hanging" announcement of acceptances and rejections, he "feels so boxed-in by applications and decisions and rejected students who jet in from Los Angeles to find out how we could have made the mistake" that he is willing to experiment with the "three decision-dates" alternative
...little wonder that the airlines are on a buying spree. Since 1962, jet transports have proved to be flying cash registers-twice as fast and three times as profitable as the best piston-engine planes. So efficient are the jets that Boeing 707s, for instance, break even with passenger loads as low as 39% of capacity. The industry's load average rose to 55% last year, enough to return the eleven U.S. trunk carriers 11% on their $2.3 billion investment, the highest rate in 15 years. This has produced some speculation that the Civil Aeronautics Board may order fare...
Organized into five product groups composed of 30 different companies, Textron sells such diverse items as golf carts, gas meters, roosters, engines for the Agena rocket, mailboxes, a rocket harness that jet-propels the human body, and the helicopters being used in Viet Nam. Last week Textron's hustling Bell Aerospace division, the leading producer of U.S. helicopters, won a record foreign order for 406 helicopters for the West German air force. The award, which will bring in about $65 million for Textron ($65 million more will go to West German firms working on contract), was especially satisfying because...
...huge jet plane, a veritable Silver Bird, touched down at Logan Airport yesterday and out stepped . . . Vicki Albright...