Word: transport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juniors, and seniors. Leaning on each other, singing, shouting, a few pausing at the gutter to retch quietly for a moment then loudly rejoining the buoyant inebriated throng, they totter off toward the campus or a cafe where they can calm down with a cup of coffee. The fraternal transport is now at its beatific height. Arm in arm they reel indifferent to traffic or the piercing cold; one lifts his hands to the frigid heavens and races down the street backwards, his scarf and topcoat wildly flapping in the wind, crying out in ecstasy, "Lord, Lord, Lord, Lord. Lord...
...executive can save frequently pays the cost of a plane; a job that would ordinarily take two days now takes only one. Top brass are not the only gainers. Salesmen cover more ground, land more contracts; engineers and troubleshooting supervisors can move around faster. Beyond ordinary personnel transport, private planes are invaluable to rush delivery of critical orders, speed repair parts to outlying plants, or perform any other task where time is the vital factor...
Beech MS-760, a sleek four-place, twin-jet transport that Beech is importing from France's Morane-Saulnier to try out the executive jet market. Cruising speed: 350 m.p.h. over a 1,000-mile range. Price...
...company in the air, but it was shaky flying. Cessna had only $3.97 in the bank when it got the first World War II order for its T-50 trainer, went on to produce 5>359 by war's end. Beech, with a bigger, six-passenger Model 18 transport-trainer, made 7,400 units and millions in profits from every branch of the armed forces. With peace both companies faced some agonizing reappraisals. Beech wanted to merge with Cessna. Dwane Wallace refused, doggedly set about finding civilian markets once it became crystal-clear that the day of the flying...
Lockheed JetStar, the first U.S.-built light jet transport. Cruising speed: 500 m.p.h. with ten passengers. Price: around...