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Word: supers (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...North American F-100C Super-Sabre, piloted by Air Force Colonel Horace A. Hanes. ripped over a straightaway course near Palmdale. Calif, to set the world's first supersonic speed record: 823 m.p.h. Although other jets have broken the sound barrier in level flight, their speed has not been checked for the record. For the F-100C trial, the observers had specially designed cameras and clocking equipment on hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Spectrum | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

MIXED-CLASS PLANES are being planned for transcontinental flights by T.W.A. (which recently led the move to cut transcontinental coach prices from $198 round trip to $160). T.W.A. wants to partition off the forward section of its Super G Constellations, load 19 coach passengers through a forward hatch, serve them no meals but give them the same fast, 8-hr, cross-country ride as first-class passengers. CAB will have to approve both price and partition...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 5, 1955 | 9/5/1955 | See Source »

Durable Portable. Raytheon has introduced a portable radio that will play for 2,500 hours (two years of normal family listening) without a battery change. The long-play Super-T is powered by a small "A" pack battery (operating cost: .16? an hour), which is cheaper to use than home current. The 8-lb. set uses transistors instead of short-lived vacuum tubes, will also play for 500 hours on four standard flashlight batteries. Retail price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Aug. 29, 1955 | 8/29/1955 | See Source »

...liner funnels, We know how, we know how, we know how, we know how. And how! We're in love, in love, in love, in love We're in love with ourselves and with our know-how Weiheit'tiu needs our know-how We are super pluperfectly, woner fully right -We are right, we are right, we are right. They are wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ORGANIZATIONS: M.R.A.'s Message | 8/15/1955 | See Source »

...Sheree North - who looks every bit as good from the south and every other point of the compass - is the major attraction. Though her dumblonde role calls for few lines, Dancer North, in a few blistering numbers, tosses her torso around with the speed and precision of a super-rocket. As Hollywood's newest guided miss. Sheree ought to be very, very popular...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 8, 1955 | 8/8/1955 | See Source »

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