Word: tailwind
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...smaller As long as two years ago, our management realized (between naps) that we could make a quick fast bulge in sales and profits by marketing a ball pen. You don't have to be the seventh son of a seventh son to sell things in a tailwind market, even a pen which has been described as "the only pen that will make eight copies and no original." If & when Parker brings out a ball pen it won't resemble anything now on the market...
...long screaming run down the airport as the plane labored to lift its heavy load of gasoline. The plane-hungry bogs around the airport giving way to the long swells of the Atlantic under the plane's wings. The long slant upward above the overcast for a tailwind and air too cold and dry for icing. The navigator's intent face reflected from the cabin windows as he read his sextant. The creeping cold of high altitude. The bulbous oxygen masks...
...Wichita the air became so bumpy that it knocked his compass needle askew, left Pilot Hughes dependent upon maps and city lights below. He recognized the lights of Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis at hour intervals. Near Indianapolis a tailwind lifted his speed to 295 m.p.h., carried him past Columbus in 35 minutes. There the moon came up, gave him a definite guidepost to the Atlantic Coast, which he reached in another 105 minutes...
...which he placed third in the England-Australia air race last autumn was United's Traffic Manager Harold Crary. An hour after Turner's departure a regular Eastern Air Liner took off from Miami with twelve passengers. Pilot Dick Merrill refueled at Charleston, picked up a tailwind at Richmond, scooted into Newark at 227 m.p.h., two minutes ahead of Turner, two hours ahead of Rickenbacker's record. Pilot Merrill's time...
...oldtime mail pilot is TWA's youngish Harry C. ("Skippy") Taylor. His was the fastest transport flight of the week. With 14 passengers in a TWA Douglas he rode a 60-mi. tailwind from Chicago to Newark (743 mi.) in 2 hr. 54 min., averaged better than four miles a minute...