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Traffic on the nation's three helicopter airlines in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York, which shuttle passengers from one airport to another and from outlying airports to downtown areas, has steadily increased from only 152,000 passengers in 1957 to 461,919 in the first ten months of 1960. But the helicopter lines make no money because their aircraft are small and expensive to maintain. They have to depend on Government subsidy, which for the three lines amounted to $4,765,000 in the fiscal year ending last June...
...seat mile (v. 16? per seat mile for the older ships), cruises at 136 m.p.h. To attract more passengers, the S-61 has a plush, airliner-like interior designed by Raymond Loewy Associates. Los Angeles Airways has ordered five ships, at $650,000 apiece, intends to put the first two in service in late summer when Federal Aviation Agency approval is expected to be granted. Chicago Helicopter Airways has ordered four...
...store's fur shop. Then the luxury goods really began to move. The year before the shop had sold only $74,000 worth of pelts. Using the casual, low-pressure manner that he still assumes behind a counter, he sold $74,000 in furs in his first four months on the job. By the end of his first year, fur sales were...
FOREIGN-CAR SALES dropped 26.5% during first ten months of 1960. Only gainer: Volkswagen, whose sales rose 37% to 130,102 cars...
...soup-stained neckties and that untidy mess of irregular verbs, seem to be nice old dears. Take Alexander Lenard, M.D., a 50-year-old Hungarian linguist who for the last eight years has been teaching and farming in a small town near Sāo Paulo, Brazil. When he first read A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh, he apparently thought of all those poor little children in ancient Rome who would never be able to read it, and he felt just awful. There was only one thing to do: translate it for them. So he did. Unfortunately, publication...