Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United expects to have 16 DC-8s in service by the year's end, 40 by June 1961, plus 18 medium-haul Boeing 720s. By next June "Pat" Patterson is confident that United's jet service will catch up to the competition...
Other Fields. To survive, many a planemaker has diversified to other fields. Hawker Siddeley builds cars (the Sapphire). Others make boats, harvesters, computers, plastic products. Those that hope to develop advanced planes are working together. De Havilland, Fairey and Hunting are jointly developing a new medium-range jet, the D.H. 121. English Electric and Vickers are developing a supersonic bomber...
...boosted RCA's non-entertainment business by more than 30%, directed the company to new areas and products. Under Burns, RCA brought out its stereo tape-cartridge, the first successful one in the industry. Burns moved RCA strongly into circuitry, controls and computers. RCA has developed the first medium-sized, all-transistor computer, hopes to find a big market in paper-clogged Wall Street. Burns took over RCA's money-losing color-TV project, cut losses in half last year, expects soon to put it in the black. Result: RCA sales have jumped sharply for the first time...
...York) and the luxurious 300 SL Roadster ($10,978) were basically unchanged. But Mercedes' new 220 series of six-cylinder sedans, the most popular in the line, appeared in a sleeker new version, with a redesigned engine that boosts power output to a top of 134 h.p. The medium-priced 220 ($4,767 with fuel injection) has a somewhat lower, slightly streamlined body that keeps the unmistakable Mercedes look, a slight suggestion of tail fins, new and larger wrap-around windows (35% more glass), a lower, broader radiator grille, and 50% more luggage space...
...hours early to watch him take his cuts in the batting cage. When he comes to the plate during a game, the stands fall silent and candy butchers ignore customers to steal a look. Rocco Domenico Colavito, just turned 26, stirs excitement every time he picks up his medium (33 oz.) bat, paws with his right foot in the box until he is rooted like an oak, flexes his shoulder muscles by whipping the bat horizontally up and behind his head, crouches slightly, and fixes the pitcher with a steady stare from his dark brown eyes...