Word: lined
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gone were the shroudlike lines of the chemise and the rib-pinching high waists of the Empire line. In their place was a natural, gaily colored (mint green, bright red and blue, fuchsia and violet) silhouette with lines round enough to brighten the dullest male...
...ripped out; the relatively new (four years or less) luxury planes will get heavy-duty floors, stronger fuselages, two huge cargo doors. When the last of the freighter 73 goes into service next year, it will give American a 20-plane cargo fleet with more than twice the line's current capacity...
...told last year, U.S. trunk airlines carried 232 million ton-miles of freight, up 6.4% from 1937. American gained 15% (to 95 million ton-miles); United gained 14% and Delta 40%, in the first eleven months alone. The Flying Tiger line, operating largely as a cargo carrier, jumped 25%, to 65.6 million ton-miles and a $12 million gross. The big boost comes from a new approach to cargo by both the lines and businessmen. Instead of relying on emergency shipments of badly needed goods and the small oddball traffic in perishable orchids, baby whales and race horses, the airmen...
...even bigger market that Massey-Ferguson must have before it can shuck all its troubles. He has purchased Mid-Western Industries of Wichita, Kans., a leader in the light industrial-equipment field, doubled the size of the Detroit tractor plant. Before long, he will announce a brand-new line of larger tractors designed especially for the U.S. market...
...automatic, spring-triggered fishing-rod holder for lazy or busy fishermen was put on the market by Automatic Fish Rod Manufacturing of Detroit. The holder can be adjusted for small, medium and heavy fish, automatically snaps to a vertical position and sets the hook at any bite on the line. Price...