First Jet Flagships to Start Transcontinental Service
In January 1959 American Airlines launches the 707 Jet Flagships as the nation’s first jet commercial airliners. The foursome will fly 600 mph, cut LA to NYC times to about 4.5 hours, carry 112 passengers, and offer ample cargo capacity. After launch, nonstop routes expand to San Francisco Chicago Dallas Washington Baltimore and Boston by mid 1959.
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American Airlines
Los Angeles
New York
American
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San Francisco
Chicago
Dallas
Washington
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Baltimore
Boston
Lake trout spawn recovery effort in northern Michigan lakes
Future Fishing Conservation Department workers net lake trout to recover spawn for hatcheries. Eggs will be stripped from mature fish and the parents released for use in state and federal facilities to grow stocks for possible Great Lakes release if lamprey control succeeds. The note mentions the first US nickel coin in 1857 and Montreal as a large French speaking city after Paris.
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Conservation Department
Michigan
Great Lakes
Isabella Farm News celebrates dairy topir and farm progress
The eleventh annual Dairy Tour at St. Leo's Church and local farms draws 160 attendees with notes on Holsteins at William Block and Sons, James McDonald farm growth from 336 to 408 lbs fat per cow since 1958. Talks by Clinton Meadows and George McIntyre urge high quality roughage, production records, and cap a tour-heavy Isabella County agricultural program.
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St. Leo’s Church
Fven
William Block and’ Sons
James McDonald
Clinton Meadows
George McIntyre
Meadows
Charles J. Wilson
Isabella County
Mother Nature the matchless artist in outdoor world
An essay celebrating Mother Nature as a tireless artist who shapes stone wood sand and sky. It reflects on art in nature from statues and glass to roses and landscapes, noting moods of calm joy and anger and the cycles of growth and renewal through seasons and weather.
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Mother
Mother Nature
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