Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system enables American to load or unload a 112-passenger Boeing 707, rain or shine, in three to five minutes. The line intends to install the jet boarding system in other U.S. cities before year...
Feeling more and more like an automaton himself, the patient goes down the line. In one cubicle, a technician takes a blood sample, feeds it into a machine that spins out and counts the cells, measures the concentration of certain key chemicals. In another, the patient gives a urine specimen. Again, a machine reduces it to neat chemical symbols and figures...
...Combat Surveillance Radar AN/TPS-25 (called Tipsy 25 by the G.I.s) is easily mobile, depends on the Doppler effect, which detects slight movements toward or away from the instrument because of the change in frequency of radio waves reflected from moving objects. When set up on the front line, Tipsy 25 is trained toward the direction of probable enemy approach. It covers an angle of about 30°, and if anything is moving there, the operator hears a crackling sound like radio static. He then narrows his beam and focuses on the suspected object. When he pinpoints it. he hears...
...approached by a TWA captain. Blurted the captain: "I just wanted to thank you for turning a losing team into a winning one." Charlie Thomas shared the captain's relief. When he took over as president and chief executive officer of TWA just a year ago, the line was flying low and slow; it had operated without a president for six months, had lost close to $12 million. Last week TWA was back to cruising altitude, thanks not only to Thomas but to the astonishing success of its jets and the upsurge in all air traffic...
...Full. Even more impressive for the balance sheet is TWA's jet load factor of 92%, which helped hike the line's domestic-revenue passenger miles 5.7% over July 1958. While total revenues rose from $280 million to $307 million for the year ended June 30, operating expenses have stayed level because of the reorganization of the line and staff cuts started by Thomas' predecessor, Carter Burgess, and continued by Thomas...