Word: medium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...JETLINER will be built by Boeing Airplane Co. to compete with Convair 880 and French Caravelle in short-to-medium-range market. New Boeing 717 is designed to carry 88 to 130 passengers economically at ranges from 200 to 1,700 miles, will have same 600 m.p.h. cruising speed as bigger transcontinental 707 series. Price: about $3,500,000 v. $5,500,000 for 707. Projected delivery date...
...TURBINE ENGINE is shaping up as most efficient power plant for future small-and medium-sized ships, with atom power limited to larger vessels. World's first ship powered solely by gas turbine, a reconditioned ten-knot U.S. Liberty, has run 20,000 trial miles without hitch, averaging about 14.8 knots with lower maintenance costs, less vibration than original steam engine...
Haydn, the first great master of the quartet medium, was represented by his Quartet in G Major, Opus 77, No. 1. Although composed in his last years, it is a fresh and daring work. The four musicians--violinists Marc Gottlieb and Vladimir Weisman, violist William Schoen, and 'cellist Irving Klein--performed it with a fine sense of ensemble and suitable restraint; in fact, the 'cellist tended to be too restrained. The first two movements went particularly well...
...does not miss igsS's style parade, as it did this year. Since both Buick and Oldsmobile had completely new bodies in 1957, they were slated for only a minor touch-up in 1958. But the competition from Ford's and Chrysler's low-and medium-priced designs has been so rugged that G.M. put on a crash redesign program, has revamped both cars completely. The General Motors line...
...Diamonds. The first diamond-point needles produced by a new, cost-cutting automated process were put on national sale by Walco Products, Inc. Walco will treble output to 3,000,000 needles a year, price them so low that makers of medium-priced hi-fi sets can afford to supply diamond needles as standard equipment. Retail price...