Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Giant Tractor. General Motors entered the earth-moving equipment field last week with a 26-ton, twin-diesel (each engine 190 h.p.) Crawler tractor, more powerful than any now in production. The tractor will be on sale early next year at a price to be set later...
...Jess Barker, 39, onetime bobby-sox hero (The Texan Meets Calamity Jane); after ten years of marriage, two children; in Hollywood. She won the right to keep her part (better than $300,000) of their community property; he got the Ford station wagon and the right to visit their twin sons one night a week and alternate weekends...
Britain last week rolled out its first truly supersonic jet. Built by English Electric, maker of the Canberra twin-jet bomber, the new P. 1 is a stubby, delta-winged interceptor, with a double-barreled Armstrong Siddeley Sapphire power plant turning out a total of 20,000 Ibs. of thrust. All English Electric will say is that the plane can fly faster than sound in level flight, and that 20 have been ordered to short-cut the time lag between prototype and production models. At the news, most of Britain's newspapers went all out, claimed speeds...
...twin-jet T-37 trainer with side-by-side seats and 400-m.p.h. speed. Last week the Air Force, choosing from among 15 designs, gave Cessna a preliminary $5,000,000 contract for T-37s, with the possibility of more if the plane lives up to expectations...
...World War II Cessna's twin-engined T-50 trainer was so successful that the U.S. Army Air Corps followed the R.C.A.F. with a flood of orders. During the war, Cessna built 5,360 of its twin-engined T-50s. Sales zoomed to $71 million in 1943, and profits...