Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another spectacular aspect of the modern drama unfolding in old-time pirate sea haunts, Cuba's Prime Minister Fidel Castro declared from a plane in flight that the Cubans were...
Cessna's performance is proof that the private-aircraft industry, which sprouted like a teen-ager after 1951 (TIME, Feb. 17, 1958), has finally matured. Last year, despite the recession, U.S. private-plane manufacturers delivered 6,416 planes, up 300 over 1957, raked in $101.5 million v. $99.7 million in 1957. In January, the latest month reported, they sold 100 more planes and grossed $2,500,000 more than in January 1958. The recession proved that for the businessman, the private plane is not a luxury but a necessity. U.S. businessmen have taken to the air in such numbers...
Chain Reaction. In Bari, Italy, a passing transport plane accidentally dropped a mile of steel links on Giuseppe Patrono's olive orchard, started rumors of a Martian invasion...
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A repeat of the film on the building of the 3,600-m.p.h. X-15 rocket plane, and a look at the men who will...
...instruction in the first years of college. But Harvard would probably continue to take boys with relatively poor high school backgrounds. Saving the reasons for the "risk" in admissions until later, it is interesting to observe how successfully the College has managed to assimilate the Westerner with algebra and plane geometry on his record without slowing up the Exonian who has had a year of advanced calculus. Most of the credit goes to the Advanced Standing Program...