Time Clock, Aug. 3, 1959

SAILINGS TO RUSSIA are being planned by Moore-McCormack Lines, with regular runs to Baltic ports for freight, passenger-cruise stops at Leningrad and Riga next summer.

NEW JET SERVICE from West Coast to London, Hawaii and Tokyo will be started by Pan American World Airways soon, with new 5,000-mile-range Boeing 707s. Jet time from San Francisco to London over Polar route: 11 hr. 20 min. v. 23 hr. 20 min. on prop-driven DC-7Cs now in use.

SALTWATER CONVERSION plant will be built near Houston, Texas by Government to convert more than a million gallons of sea...

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