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...monthly letter to salesmen, Wichita's Cessna Aircraft Co. could find only one way to describe business: "Sales are booming, booming, booming." Like the rest of the U.S. light-plane industry, Cessna is indeed in the midst of the biggest peacetime boom in its history. In 1955's first quarter alone, Cessna, Beech and Piper, the three top private plane makers, sold more than 1,000 planes, worth $20.8 million, a full 40% better than last year. Reason: businessmen are flying nearly 4,000,000 hours annually, more than all the scheduled airlines put together...
...last week eleven new Cessna planes, worth $261,000, buzzed out of Wichita, for delivery to businessmen in five states. It was one of the biggest delivery days in Cessna history. Last year the company sold 1,199 commercial planes, worth $15 million; this year it expects to hit $30 million and pass Beech in dollar-volume as the biggest private plane maker. Beech Aircraft Corp., which sold $22 million worth of commercial planes in 1954, is aiming at $26 million. Piper Aircraft Corp. will increase its sales from $11 million to $16 million...
Sandra Chroness of Oneenta, N.Y., and Bertram Hall, who is concentrating in history and literature; Adria Holmes of South Hadley, Mass., and Whitman Hall, concentrating in philosophy; Evelyn Janover of New York and Barnard Hall, majoring in history and literature; Shirley B. Johnson of Wichita, Kansas and Eliot Hall, concentrating in government; carol Latter of Bronx, N.Y., and Barnard Hall, majoring in history and literature; Marina von Neumaun of Princeton, N.J., and Holmes Hall, concentrating in government...
...with scintillometers roamed the back-country roads along Texas' Cap Rock, an outcrop of red sand and limestone running from Big Spring north to Amarillo. The rumor: the entire 200-mile stretch was hot. Other promising uranium areas were being opened up just across the Oklahoma line above Wichita Falls, in the Hueco Mountains near El Paso and in Brewster County and San Saba...
...Parting Guests. In Wichita, Kans., after being robbed by two bandits ol $1,500 and forced to carry a stolen bag of' groceries to their car, Grocer Dale Steen was forced at gunpoint to borrow a customer's car, push the getaway car a quarter of a mile to get it started...