Word: plane
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engraves all pictures and composes all pages. From Donnelley, duplicates of the assembled pages in the form of complete plates, mats, Vinylite molds or film positives are flown to the seven other domestic and overseas printing and binding plants. Bound copies are then shipped by rail, truck and plane to readers...
...Philip Guston: "Only our surprise that the unforeseen was fated, allows the arbitrary to disappear. The delights and anguish of the paradoxes on this imagined plane resist the threat of painting's re-ducibility...
With the thought that climbing an old-fashioned ramp to board a jet plane is like using a ladder to mount a race horse, American Airlines last week introduced the first true jet-age boarding system. At a cost of more than $100,000, it put into operation at San Francisco's International Airport a system of "jetwalks...
...system consists of two soundproof and weatherproof corridors, red-carpeted and glass-enclosed, which extend from the terminal at plane-door level on a high, fixed base. First-class passengers enter a short jetwalk that leads to the plane's front door via a short gondola that slides to the door on a monorail. Other passengers walk a longer distance along a jet-walk that runs parallel to the plane, enter the rear door through a telescoping corridor that can be moved out to the door on wheels. Both devices are operated electrically from a console that can raise...
Reflecting Runway. A reflecting paint for airport runways and taxi strips that makes them brightly visible at night is being sold by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. The mixture, called Scotch-Rok, reflects a plane's landing lights two miles away...