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...routes, Pioneer asked the Civil Aeronautics Board to let it expand to some 30 cities in five additional states. To prove it was ready, it sold its entire fleet of old DC-3s to the Air Force for a profit of $945,537, and bought nine faster (270 m.p.h.), roomier (36-passenger) Martin 2-0-2s. CAB warned Pioneer that the Martins were too hot for small airports to handle and far too expensive to operate. If Pioneer insisted on flying the 2-0-2s, it could expect no boost in mail...
...walk into freedom. By order of the Tito government, Archbishop Stepinac had been conditionally released, after serving five years of a 16-year sentence on a trumped-up charge of wartime collaboration with the fascists. Actually, he was on his way to a roomier internment: his native village of Krasic, where, as a government communiqué said, "the former archbishop" would have to limit himself to the duties of a simple priest...
Levine is determinedly a city boy. The youngest of a Boston shoemaker's eight children, he was upset when his family moved out of the tenements of the South End of Boston to roomier Roxbury. Eight-year-old Jackie was "horrified by the trees and piazzas." He consoled himself "by making drawings of drunkards and other things I remembered...
Chrysler Corp. also was stepping up production. With the introduction of its 1950 Plymouth, Chrysler had also finished the parade of its new, lower and roomier models. Before long, it hoped to be producing 7,100 cars and trucks a day. As a sales point, Chrysler had also trimmed off extras so that a Plymouth could be bought for as low as $1,295 f.o.b. Detroit...
Widening bodies to the fender line had made the cars roomier, but had also made the whole automobile, including doors, more susceptible to traffic damage. Parking-lot operators complained that they could store only two postwar cars where three earlier models had stood...