Word: trying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Briefcase barnstorming shows every sign of growing still more. What was once the "president's plane" has become a management taxi for practically everybody. And after a company buys one plane, perhaps a Piper Tri-Pacer, it often moves up to a larger Beech Twin-Bonanza. The second just about sells itself as corporations discover that they need different planes for different uses...
...well-remembered history. Turkey in 1919 was crushed, defeated from without, disintegrating within. Gone was the fury and might which, beginning in 1299, had sent Ottoman legions smashing at Vienna's gates and made Budapest a suburb of Constantinople. Gone was the conquering fervor that created a tri-continental empire the size of the U.S., encompassing what are now 20 modern nations stretching from the Dniester to the Nile, from the Adriatic to the Persian Gulf. In 1919, British warships still rode in the Bosporus and British troops held Constantinople; Italy, France and Greece were secretly dividing...
...National Television System Committee reported that it was hard at work defining the standards needed for a compatible system. RCA's Dr. Elmer W. Engstrom said that, once FCC approves the standards, RCA "will immediately put into effect plans to mass-produce color TV receivers and tri-color tubes." Chromatic Television Laboratories, Inc., which says it can produce a tube to receive black & white as well as color from either the CBS or the RCA system, complained that the defense order had forced a shutdown of its production line...
...Governor Tri took his plan to the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, and last month got a grant of 7,000,000 piastres ($340,000) to give it a try. Said MSA Director Frederic P. Bartlett: "It's a calculated risk, a useful experiment of French, Vietnamese and American cooperation...
...first protected settlement, Governor Tri chose Dong Quan, 55 miles south of Hanoi. A 300-acre patch of land surrounded by waterways, in the midst of thickly populated ricelands, Dong Quan is ideally located for defense as well as for village commerce. Within six months, 1,000 Viet Nam peasant families (about 10,000 people) will be brought in from 25 surrounding villages. The farmers will still work their old fields by day, but at night they will sleep in the town under protection of a strong Viet Nam militia. The plans for Dong Quan include a Christian church...