Word: 4s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...moment, none of the planemakers is sure of customers for the piston aircraft, though there are 1,100 DC-3s and DC-4s around the world that will soon have to be replaced. Even without the assurance of a market, the planemakers will take trade-ins because, according to one. "a trade-in may be just enough to tip a deal your...
...trouble is its size. The Viscount's 44-seat capacity puts it at a disadvantage against 60-to 90-passenger Douglas DC-7s and Lockheed Super Constellations on highly traveled routes. Moreover, when Capital switched to Viscounts, it was unable to sell its aging fleet of DC-4s and early-model Constellations. Capital still flies the old planes, estimates that its inability to sell them cost about $1,000,000 last year, just about the extent of its deficit...
REFUGEE AIRLIFT is giving nonscheduled airlines biggest boom since Korean war. CAB has issued nonskeds 29 permits for refugee flights, will soon approve 24 more. Every usable overwater craft will be pressed into service. So great is need that asking price for used DC-4s has jumped from $550,000 apiece...
...with that part of himself that fails to come up to his ideal of a strong and capable man. I-5 knows that he has a strong side, a protective side and a side that can weep. Most of us are either I-5s or else I-4s struggling to become Iss. An I-6 would be no problem here, and I-7, the perfect man, doesn't exist...
...when the war ended, S. & W. ran into rough weather. In a single year, the line saw its gross plummet nearly 50% from the 1953 peak of $13.6 million. It returned six leased DC-4s, chopped its personnel, and hustled up private air freight, flying everything from European leather goods for the carriage trade to Indian rhesus monkeys for the Salk polio-vaccine program. It bought four new Lockheed Super Constellations to give customers faster service, expanded its service to the point where this year's revenues will top $15 million. Next step: more expansion by buying more long...