Word: strato
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...costumes that the cinemadapters of H. G. Wells's The Shape of Things to Come dreamed up is here. The flyer is wearing a "Strato-Suit" developed by the late Major John G. Kearby of the Air Technical Service Command and by B. F. Goodrich Co. Designed for high-altitude flying, the electrically heated, pressurized suit could theoretically keep a man comfortable at 80,000 feet. The plastic bubble enclosing the head has oxygen for breathing, a microphone and earphones for communication. A man can zip himself into the suit in two minutes...
This week Boeing proudly let out the 130,000-lb. secret. The new ship is Boeing's postwar superairliner, the "Strato-cruiser," in a military transport version. Boeing says the Stratocruiser can fly 100 passengers, in the plushiest kind of comfort, from New York to London in eleven hours; from New York to Los Angeles in seven. Clairmont Leroy Egtvedt, Boeing's conservative board chairman, published the startling figures...
...minded President had strato-clippered the 2,875 miles from Lima to Bolling Field, where waited Franklin Roosevelt and pomp & circumstance. Although no parade had been scheduled, seven military bands and guards of honor at "present arms" flanked the four-mile route. In sockets on Franklin Roosevelt's "Sunshine Special," his big, shiny limousine, stood the Presidential flag and Peru's red-and-white banner. Government workers hung out of office windows. It was Washington's first parade since Pearl Harbor...