Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...least five years. Because of increased efficiency, the break-even point of Hilton hotels is now down to about 60% to 75% of capacity, as against a national average of 80%. For the first ten months of 1949, their operating profit totaled $6,886,108, slightly higher than last year...
...high-priced, small hotels in the smaller cities which were passed over in the hotel-building '20s. He is now eyeing land in Atlanta, Beverly Hills and Havana. But he does not think that anyone will ever again build huge hotels like those he gobbled up in the last few years. Nor does he expect to buy any more big ones, at least not right away. With the air of a tired conqueror he asks: "After all, where can you go from the Waldorf...
While bossing the Berlin airlift, Major General William H. Tunner -often thought of what the ideal military cargo plane should be like. Last week, at an "Air Cargo Day" meeting in Manhattan's Hotel Statler, he described it. It should have four engines and be able to carry 50,000 Ibs. of cargo on a 3,000-mile flight at 250 m.p.h. It should be able to fly at 20,000 ft., land on a 6,000-ft. runway. Engines and equipment should be designed for easy repair and cargo doors should be wide enough...
Although General Tunner was looking into the future, the Air Force already had two planes which come close to filling his bill. One of them, the Douglas Globemaster II (C-124), made its first test flight last week. It can carry 50,000 Ibs., has clamshell doors in its nose big enough to drive a truck through. It falls short mainly in its range, 1,500 miles...
...Stratocruiser, now in quantity production in Seattle. The C-97-B will carry more cargo (53,000 Ibs.) higher (30,000 ft), faster (300 m.p.h.) and farther (3,750 mi.) than Tunner asked for, but its largest cargo door is a hair too small for the Army truck. Last week, Boeing engineers were busy designing a new door...