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Mylar
MYLAR Data storage devices—compact disks, floppy disks, and magnetic tapes—come in all shapes and sizes. The first magnetic tapes were made of thin strips of metal. In the early 1950s the DuPont corporation patented a thin, polyester film that revolutionized the magnetic... Read more |
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Mesa Airlines Inc
Mesa Airlines, Inc. 2325 East 30th St.Farmington, New Mexico 87041U.S.A.(505) 327-0271Fax: (505) 326-4487 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1983 as Mesa Air Shuttle, Inc.Employees: 2,800Sales: $353.6 millionStock Exchanges: NASDAQ ChicagoSICs: 4512 Air Transportation, Scheduled; 4522 AirTransportation,... Read more |
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Licenses
Licensing All commercial launches (or re-entries or landings) conducted by a U.S. company are regulated by the Commercial Space Launch Act (CSLA) of 1984 and its 1988 and 1998 amendments. Under the CSLA, each launch (or re-entry) must have a license. This is true even when launching offshore, as is... Read more |
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Air fares
AIRLINE DEREGULATION The first airlines began appearing in the United States following World War I (1914–1918). By the 1930s the federal government had granted exclusive rights to domestic airmail routes to four airlines: American Airlines, United Air Lines, Eastern Air Lines, and... Read more |
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airline industry
airline industry the business of transporting paying passengers and freight by air along regularly scheduled routes, typically by airplanes but also by helicopter. Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin set up the first commercial airline in 1912, using a form of the dirigible to transport more than 34,000... Read more |
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Titanium Metals Corp
Titanium Metals Corporation 1999 Broadway, Suite 4300Denver, Colorado 80202U.S.A.(303) 296-5600Fax: (303) 296-5640Web site: http://www.timet.com Public CompanyIncorporated: 1950 as Titanium Metals Corporation ofAmericaEmployees: 2,250Sales: $507.1 million (1996)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs:... Read more |
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Edward Vernon Rickenbacker
Edward Vernon Rickenbacker 1890-1973, American war hero and airline executive, b. Columbus, Ohio. He became a car racing driver at 16 and set numerous speed records. In World War I he volunteered for the air service and became the leading U.S. ace by destroying 26 enemy planes. After serving as an... Read more |
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coin
coin piece of metal, usually a disk of gold, silver, nickel, bronze, copper, aluminum, or a combination of such metals, stamped by authority of a government as a guarantee of its real or exchange value and used as money . Coinage was probably invented independently in Lydia or in the Aegean... Read more |
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Air Express International Corp
Air Express International Corporation 120 Tokeneke RoadDarien, Connecticut 06820U.S.A.(203) 655-7900Fax: (203) 655-5779 Public Company Incorporated: 1946Employees: 4,700Sales: $1 billionStock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 4731 Freight Transportation Arrangement A diverse transportation and logistics... Read more |
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