Word: planeload
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington this week as guests of the Navy will fly a planeload of businessmen and scientists to inspect a new system being used by the Navy to speed production of new weapons. The system, called Program Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) was set up to schedule and keep under continuous review the progress of the Polaris missile program, an administrative task rivaling the Manhattan Project in complexity. Thanks largely to PERT, the Polaris missile is programed to be operational in late 1960, two years ahead of schedule...
...split is chiefly between Figueres and Castro, and it began when the Cuban government invited Figueres last month to look in on the revolution that he helped to power by supplying a planeload of arms. For 2½ days, Figueres fruitlessly sought an appointment with Castro; the two finally met on a platform where they were scheduled to speak. Castro greeted him coldly, saying: "Don't embarrass me about Puerto Rico"-a place Figueres admires as progressive and Castro mistrusts as colonial-"and don't create any international problems for me." Figueres buttoned his lip about Puerto Rico...
When his turn came at the microphone, Figueres recalled that "our group gave what modest aid it could to end tyranny in Cuba" (notably a planeload of arms to Castro in his darkest days). Figueres went on to say that "in Latin America we ignore a little the possibility of a great conflagration, of a third World War." He anxiously noted that in dealing with the U.S. "at times we speak in the language almost of warlike enemies." He confessed "worry" about Communist influence in Latin America and warned against siding with the Soviets in the cold war. At this...
Turkey's 59-year-old Premier Adnan Menderes was flying into London from Istanbul with a planeload of Turkish officials, Members of Parliament and newsmen for final talks on a Cyprus settlement. His secretary had pulled him through a hole in the wreckage. Margaret Bailey, a former nurse, drove them through the woods to her 14th century farm cottage, wrapped them in hot blankets, served them tea and some of her precious 1868 brandy...
...year or two, it looked as if he had speculated wrongly about the future of air travel, had dangerously overexpanded. A subsidiary, American Overseas, had started transatlantic flights and lost money with almost every planeload. Domestic air travel did not expand nearly so fast as Smith expected. In the first three postwar years, American piled up losses of $6.7 million...