Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin America, plus parts of Asia and Africa. At first, all planes will be built in France, but when Douglas orders get big enough (more than 50), Douglas will make the Caravelle in the U.S. This means that Douglas will probably not build its DC-9 medium-range jet, hopes that in the Caravelle it has the jet-age equivalent...
...been sold in the U.S. to Jet-Engine Builder General Electric Co., which will use the plane as a flying showroom for its new CJ-805-23 aft-fan engine, which delivers more thrust for lower fuel consumption than standard jet engines. G.E. sees a bright future for the medium-range French plane, and wants its engine to replace the Rolls-Royce power plant now in the plane...
...grey-thatched, cigar-puffing financier whose business is taking risks that no prudent banker would consider. As head of Chicago's Walter E. Heller & Co., the largest independent U.S. commercial finance firm, he has helped finance the birth and growth of more than 13,000 small and medium-sized businesses-about one in 23 of all U.S. manufacturing corporations. Heller not only pumps in vital funds where banks shun the risk, but freely dispenses the advice and guidance that many struggling firms need as badly as money. His aim is to make them so Dig and fat that they...
...Chain Publisher John S. (Detroit Free Press) Knight was interested. Although the deal was denied on all sides, the reports got so much circulation that Forest City's President Graham felt it necessary to take a full-page ad in the Plain Dealer threatening to sue "any competing medium" that "continues to spread [the rumor], by printed word...
...science, workers at Britain's famed Common Cold Research Unit (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) reported that they have isolated what appears to be three strains of common cold virus. They will not grow under the conditions favored by most viruses, but need a cooler and more acid medium (like the lining of human nasal passages). The strains are so choosy that some nourish only in cells from embryonic human kidneys-in which others will not grow at all. Upshot: there are probably so many different strains of cold viruses that a single vaccine is as far away as ever...