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...long-awaited Civil Aeronautics Board decision on the rich New York-to-Miami airline run came last week. To little (eleven aging DC-3s, six early-model Convairs) Northeast Airlines (1955 net: $379,937) went the grandest prize in the CAB bag: permission to fly the "Gold Coast" run, with National and Eastern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Off to Miami | 8/20/1956 | See Source »

France's wartime air-transport chief. He landed in France as soon as Paris was liberated, and by V-E day had Air France back in business. A year later, the line was flying 68 scheduled routes with DC-3s and other war-weary craft...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Pegasus a la Francaise | 1/23/1956 | See Source »

...STEEL CORP. is the first American purchaser of a new executive version of the Vickers Viscount turboprop; it has ordered three to replace its DC-3s...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, may 30, 1955 | 5/30/1955 | See Source »

...around in Spain. By rail, the 312-mile trip to Barcelona from Madrid takes all day, costs $9.50 on a rattletrap train. Highway travel is just as bad-over narrow, potholed, mountainous roads. But in one of Iberia's 32 British and American planes (mostly Douglas DC-3s and DC-4s) the Barcelona trip takes less than two hours, costs only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Flying High in Spain | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...National Liberation," and doing his best to look like it. From his Tegucigalpa house, boxes of arms appeared and were loaded into trucks. Soldiers were recruited, and promised pay of $2.50 a day. The force thus swiftly mobilized was uniformed in fresh suntans, and airlifted (in commercial DC-3s, at $400 a flight) to Macuelizo, Copan and Nueva Ocotepeque. Honduran hamlets on the Guatemalan frontier...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GUATEMALA: Battle of the Backyard | 6/28/1954 | See Source »

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