Word: strato
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...home town, Seattle, think of it in more practical terms-it is their biggest payroll and a financial well which waters the city and a great part of the country around it. This summer, with a postwar peak of 26,000 employees working on B-50s, on doubledecked Strato-cruisers and on sub assemblies for its jet-powered B-47, it was supporting one in seven families in Seattle...
...Passel of Hatfields. Nobody in Seattle had to be told what the decision meant. As work on B-50s and Strato-cruisers ran out, the Boeing factories would probably become ghost shops. Last week when Air Secretary Stuart Symington dropped in on Seattle enroute to Alaska, the city's leading citizens closed in on him like a passel of Hatfields ambushing a lone McCoy...
...skeds" had packed in their passengers like cattle to make their cut-rate fares profitable. Worse still in the same period there had been no less than four crashes, killing 117 people. The latest-and most serious-was six weeks ago when a Curtiss Commando plane operated by Strato-Freight, Inc. plunged into the Atlantic, killing 53 of its 81 occupants (TIME, June 20). After that, the Civil Aeronautics Administration decided to take a harder look at the non-skeds' safety practices...
Last week, CAA acted. Charging Strato-Freight with overloading and persistent violation of safety regulations (e.g., it had ignored a badly frayed flap follow-up cable), CAA ordered the airline to stop flying. It was the first time that CAA which usually leaves such police action to the Civil Aeronautics Board, had grounded an overseas airline...
When one group of students aged 14 to 16 were asked what they would like to do, the majority gave answers like this: "Want to be a strato-navigator"; "Want to conquer the Arctic"; "Would like to build a special radio station to contact Mars . . . want to fly there...