GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Apr. 13, 1953

GOODS & SERVICES

Male Plane. United Air Lines will start daily nonstop DC-6 flights on April 26 between New York and Chicago "for men only." The Executive will take off from New York at 5 p.m. E.S.T., while a similar eastbound flight will leave Chicago at 5 p.m. C.S.T. The only females aboard: two stewardesses, who will provide the latest market quotations, business publications, steak dinners and soft slippers. Cigar-and pipe-smoking, barred on most flights out of deference to women, will be "quite in order."

Peppier Jeep. A new civilian jeep was rolled out by Willys-Overland. Except for a higher hood, the body...

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