Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Eddie Rickenbacker, lifelong specialist in the calculated risk, last week staked $100 million on the future of his Eastern Air Lines. He signed final contracts for that much in new airplanes for Eastern, the largest replacement order in U.S. aviation history. The orders were for 30 four-engined Lockheed Super-Constellations and 60 twin-engined Martin 4-0-4s. They will add an average of 65 m.p.h. to the speed of the Eastern fleet and will boost passenger capacity...
...tight, 24-hour guard. There, civilian sub builders and the Navy's top engineers and designers are engaged in a giant gamble. They are working, not on a U.S. version of the XXVI, but on what the Navy hopes will be an answer to Russia's super-subs: an atomic killer submarine. Longer and wider than present-day subs, she would be powered by virtually noiseless atomic engines. Fully submerged, she could cruise for 40 days off enemy sub bases, be able to walk away from surface ships. If all goes well, the Navy hopes to have...
...gawked at a cluster of ranch-like buildings on the right-hand side of the road. The buildings looked like a motel; but no one had ever seen a motel like Western Hills. When it opens next week, it will offer road-worn motorists 200 air-conditioned rooms and super-suites (many with balconies and wood-burning fireplaces) and a kidney-shaped swimming pool surrounded by bamboo-trimmed cabanas. Guests will be able to get free ice cubes from refrigerators scattered around the motel, have meals delivered to their rooms in motor-driven carts...
...Have Faith" Anderson commands a squadron of the 98th Bomb Group in Korea. His lumbering Super-forts, like their pilots, are almost all veterans of another war. One day last week, Anderson led four Japan-based B-29s toward the rail bridges at Kwaksan. Before they had a chance to release their bombs, 30 MIGs jumped the mission and its cover...
...rash of price-cutting began on fair-traded items. Manhattan's R. H. Macy & Co. announced its cuts in full-page newspaper ads: "Now you can buy 5,978 'price-fixed' items at less than price-fixed prices -at Macy's." In New Jersey, Kings Super Markets slashed prices on brand products as much as 30% and promised to cut more. Grocer Charlie Hawkins of Stockton, Calif., a long-standing fair-trade enemy, chalked up his new prices, said: "The little independent guy will now be able to make competition for the big chains...