Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...planes and their timetable: ¶ $125 million fleet of 40 piston-engined Douglas DC-7Bs, plus another ten Lockheed Super Constellations to give Eastern 370-m.p.h. cruising speeds along all its mainline routes. Eastern has already ordered 20 of the planes and received eight; the remaining 42 will be delivered...
...then, says Rickenbacker, he will have a fleet of 218 multiengined airliners-60 jet and turboprop "express liners," 60 local-service twin-engined ships, plus 98 four-engined "super air-coach" planes. All told, the fleet will treble Eastern's current carrying capacity to 20 million passengers annually flying 15 billion miles. Says Rickenbacker: "Air transportation should make more progress in the next ten years than we have been able to accomplish in the past...
...Students'] minds, and those of their parents, have been poisoned by the insidious cloud of anti-intellectualism which hangs over this country like a great shroud . . . Somehow, science has become identified in the minds of a great many people as a sort of super 'Svengali,' responsible for all our dilemmas...
...chancellery on wheels," pulled in the day before carrying a huge entourage, with the Germans' own communications, their own police, Mercedes sedans, and huge stocks of their own food (sauerkraut, sausages, choice wines). Even the motorized gangway that pulled up to the door of Adenauer's Super Constellation had been shipped in ahead...
...Flying North American F-100C Super-sabre jets, six U.S. Air Force pilots raced 2,325 miles from Victorville, Calif, to Philadelphia in the annual Bendix Trophy race. Winner: Colonel Carlos M. Talbott. Average speed: 610.7 m.p.h., well under the 652.5 m.p.h. coast-to-coast record set by an F-84F Thunderstreak jet last March...