Word: planes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...keep 1960 spending at the fiscal-1959 level. But when asked whether 1960's total would be $2 billion higher than 1959's, he recoiled: "Oh, no." How about $1 billion higher? "I just don't know," said McElroy. His final word before boarding his plane back to Washington: "economy" is being considered as well as "security," but "the first by no means takes precedence over the second." Which was to say that things would be profitably painful but not perilous...
Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the handsome, greying Shah of Iran, stepped from the plane one day last week, exchanged greetings with Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, Premier Amintore Fanfani and six Cabinet ministers...
...four Cowles dailies are good newspapers. They cover the dogfights as well as the international crises, send reporters to club meetings as well as the Kremlin. The Des Moines papers have 214 stringers; the Minneapolis Star once used three editors, five photographers and twelve reporters and rewritemen on a plane crash. Both cities use four-color news pictures (the Star regularly has one on its front page). Both produce Sunday papers that are regional institutions, provide readers with everything from soil-conservation guidance to fine sequence pictures of Big Ten football plays. Crack circulation departments turn loose an army...
...attract more passengers; it has orders for three Douglas DC-8 pure jets, another 23 turboprop Lockheed Electras. But its place on the production line is so far back that it will not get the first 400-m.p.h. Electras until six months after competitor Eastern puts the same plane into service; the DC-8s will not arrive until 1960, about the same time as Eastern...
Thanksgiving. The first light broke into the dirty black sky hours later. Mays thought he saw a sea gull. He looked again, saw the flashing lights of a Coast Guard twin-engined amphibian Albatross. The men tried to get up, to signal the plane, but in a moment it was gone. The raft drifted on. As the clouds broke before the sun. Fleming and Mays looked at their watches: 8:40. Then they looked at each other: their eyes were puffed, their faces red, their lips swollen, their hands cut and bruised. Yet, somehow, now that daylight had come, they...