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...important innovation has been the recent development of sturdier, larger helicopters. Of the six major manufacturers, Boeing's Vertol Division and United Aircraft's Sikorsky Division are now producing twin-engine crafts with capacities of about 40 passengers. Once it gets federal clearance, New York Airways plans to begin in April Vertol-107 instrument flights from the top of Manhattan's 59-story Pan American Building. Since the new helicopters can operate at night and under the same visibility conditions required for jets, the line hopes to eliminate at least the complaint of unreliability in schedules...
Belated Beef-Up. Last week Pentagon sources revealed that around 50 sturdier Douglas Skyraider dive bombers have already been shipped to Viet Nam and that 75 more would arrive by the end of the summer-to replace both the B-26s and the remaining combat T-28s. Though also a prop-driven World War II craft, the Skyraider is a much more powerful warplane and almost twice as fast as the B26. Armed with 20-mm. cannon, Skyraiders distinguished themselves in Korea for their close support of the Marines. But the improvement is belated. As to the question...
Died. Karl Knight Probst, 79, freelance consulting engineer who reportedly got $200 (his standard weekly fee) for turning out the boxy design for the bone-rattling, indestructible Jeep in seven days in 1940 after he was asked to build a sturdier vehicle than Germany's war-adapted Volkswagen; after a long illness; in Dayton...
...invest as he pleases. Many economists, in fact, argue that a company's strength lies not just in its net profit, but in its "cash flow," which is net profit plus depreciation write-offs. On this basis, the health of U.S. corporations as a whole is considerably sturdier than their profits figures alone would indicate. Though total net profits have risen only from $20.5 billion in 1948 to an estimated $26 billion in 1962, cash flow over the same years has increased from $27 billion to $52.25 billion. This has helped corporations increase their dividend payments since...
...intervene forcefully enough in China after World War II. Last week, with the Geneva conference on Laos getting started (see THE WORLD), British and French diplomats conceded that it would have been wiser for the West to intervene in Laos a month before so as to give itself a sturdier bargaining position...