Word: twins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hospitality Repaid. In Poland, the Daladier-Soustelle-Lebon party got a warm reception. For them, the Polish press had none but friendly words. Last week a Soviet-made twin-engine Ilyushin-12 set them down again at Paris' Le Bourget field. They were loaded with dirndled dolls, folklore records, candy and brief cases bulging with notes...
Since 1911, the Collier Trophy has been given yearly, by a committee of U.S. aviation experts, to the man responsible for "the greatest achievement in aviation in America." Past committees have honored such sky milestones as the practical parachute, the blind-landing system, the twin-engine commercial transport, the air offensive against Germany, the first supersonic flight.* Last week the trophy went to Leonard Sinclair Hobbs, United Aircraft Corp.'s vice president for engineering. His achievement: development and production of the J-57, the world's most powerful production jet engine...
Born. To Herb Shriner, 35, homespun Hoosier radio-TV comedian-quizmaster (Two for the Money), and Eileen McDermott Shriner, 27: their second and third children, twin boys; in Manhattan. Names: Kin and Lark. Weights...
...most powerful engine in production, will go into two more U.S. military planes. The engine, already slated to power three new Air Force fighters and the B-52 bomber, will also be used in the Navy's Douglas F4D "Skyray" fighter and Douglas A3D twin-engined light bomber...
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...