Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...youngsters worked on a family of exciting new transports. In 1933 Boeing put out its 247, the country's first twin-engined, all-metal transport that could keep its altitude with a full load on one engine. Boeing also put in such advances as trim tabs, supercharged engines and an automatic pilot, built 55 of the 247s for its United Air Lines sister subsidiary...
...engined airliner, the "Stratoliner," the first transport with a pressurized cabin for high-altitude travel. Boeing built 22 Stratoliners and 314s. But the planes, expensive to operate, and complicated challenges to airline maintenance crews, did not sell in quantity. Boeing lost a total of $4,500,000 on its twin giants and found itself in financial trouble...
...force (first independent air arm in Japan's history) of 40,000 men, 1,300 planes, including 525 F-86 Sabre jets (21 squadrons) and 96 B66 Douglas twin-jet light bombers (six squadrons...
Some books are destined, not for the ages, but for the nearest hammock. Elliot Paul's Desperate Scenery and Alexandra Orme's Paris Original are light summer fare, earmarked for twin hammocks stamped "His" and "Hers." Author Paul who often as not writes about Paris, this time has written an autobiographical boy-faces-life yarn set in the remote reaches of 1910 Idaho and Wyoming. Authoress Orme's novel is a girl-meets-love story set in the feline, high-fashion world of postwar Paris. Each book lightheartedly holds a slightly askew mirror up to human nature...
...many times in the past, Yale's ability to complete the double play hurt the Crimson. The Blues racked up two twin-killings; both ruined incipient Harvard rallies