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Into New York harbor last week sailed the first entire shipload of refugees to enter the U.S. under the Refugee Relief Act of 1953. "We come with gratitude," said Hans Freer, 34, one of 1,243 refugees aboard the chartered U.S. Navy transport General Langfitt. Freer's arrival with his family amounted to a near miracle of deliverance : his wife had been a Soviet slave laborer, he was buffeted about Europe by Nazis and Communists for 15 years, and for a time it seemed unlikely that many refugees would ever reach the U.S. under the 1953 relief act. Last...
BOEING JET TRANSPORT will soon be in production for U.S. airlines. With an Air Force green light to build the airliner alongside its jet tanker, Boeing is dickering with both Pan American (for 25 planes) and United Air Lines (for 20 planes), expects to deliver the first jet by late 1958 at a price somewhere between...
They flew the 30,000 miles mostly aboard Military Air Transport Service and Air Force planes. Unpressurized cabins brought ear trouble. There was a running gag of one violinist asking his neighbor, "How did I play tonight? I couldn't hear myself." One flight, between Tokyo and Seoul, ran into a storm so Wagnerian that everyone but Director Don Gillis became violently ill. Gillis. with an oxygen tank but no mask, dashed up and down the plane spraying groaning musicians in the face with oxygen. "It may or may not have helped," he says...
...Silliman Jr. was carefully trained by his hard-driving father. He broke in as a printer's devil at eight, sold newspapers on the street, learned to use a camera, did some reporting. At 18 he joined the Air Transport Command, became the ATC's youngest wartime pilot, landed the first U.S. transport plane in liberated Paris. After the war Silliman Jr. took over two smaller dailies then owned by the company; Both he and his brother are well aware that they must move fast to live up to their father, described in his early days...
...light-plane field World War I Planemaker Morane-Saulnier has built a sleek, four-place light jet called the Paris which can buzz along at 400 m.p.h. serve either as a military liaison plane or a highspeed executive transport. Though only one prototype has been built, U.S. Light-Plane-Maker Beechcraft, no novice in the field, is so impressed with the Paris that it is showing it around the U.S., will build for flying businessmen if there are enough orders. On its American debut the Morane-Saulnier craft flew Ambassador to the U.S. Maurice de Murville from Washington...