Word: mins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...AMERICAN World Airways hopes to cash in on West Germany's fabulous economic revival by starting direct flights between Berlin and New York. Scheduled time is 17 hrs., 11 min., including stops at Hamburg, Prestwick Airport, Scotland, and occasionally Gander, Nfld. Fare...
...lured many a traveler from piston-engine planes. While operating cost per hour will be slightly higher than for Capital's DC-4s, the actual cost per seat-mile will be less owing to the Viscount's 115-m.p.h. greater speed. Sample new schedule: 1 hr. 31 min. between Cleveland and New York compared to the present 1 hr. 50 min. run. Says Carmichael: "The Viscount will be the most profitable plane we ever operated...
...Artists and Repertory Director George R. (for Richard) Marek. His plan: to win new audiences for records by making music "painless." Among his other recent projects: a series of almost featureless "mood music" (TIME, Feb. 22), e.g., "Music to Read By," "Music to Help You Sleep," and a 2 min. 52 sec. orchestral condensation of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata for the disk-jockey trade. Such popularizations, some serious musicians feel, kill not only the pain but the music...
...FIGHTERS are being -equipped with new 20-mm. cannon that can fire explosive shells faster than the standard (1,200 rounds per min.) .50-cal. machine gun. The new weapon, which fires cartridges by electricity instead of the usual mechanical hammer, was developed by Ford and Illinois Institute of Technology engineers from World War II German plans, is now being mass-produced by General Motors' Pontiac Division...
...cities in World War II. But among builders, there is no disagreement. The man who has done more than anyone else to change the face of the earth lives in a one-story frame house at an elevation of 2,695 ft. in Boise, Idaho (long. 116° 11 min. W., lat. 43° 34 min. N.). He is Harry Winford Morrison, 69, white-haired boss of Morrison-Knudsen Co., the world's biggest heavy construction firm...