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Actually, air-coach travel is fast becoming second-class service in name only. Instead of awkward night flights, air coaches now operate on daytime schedules, and tourists usually ride in the same equipment used on first-class runs. On air coach DC-6s and Constellations, the only major difference is that an extra row of seats is added so that passengers on the right side ride three abreast. The only important luxuries of first-class travel not available on air coaches are free meals. Domestic coach passengers must buy their food, but meals are now free on overseas air-coach...
...American Airlines last week went a fast tax write-off certificate for a big new expansion program. American plans to spend $47 million for 25 Douglas DC-7s (bigger and faster than DC-6s), hopes to start flying them on its routes late next year. The DC-7s, said American, will be the last piston-engine transports it will buy. After them, the airline hopes to get into the jet age (see below...
...benefits to the West. But their impact is even greater on a land which has been slumbering since Nebuchadnezzar. Kings, sheiks and shahs have become the new tycoons-some of the world's richest men in some of the world's poorest countries. A civilization of DC-6s, Parker "513" and air-conditioned trailers has descended on proud, backward peoples...
...from Almeria. Last month, at the opening of Madrid's Hispano-American Art Biennale, Perceval drew the critics' praise for his Beheading of the Innocents, a large Renaissance-style canvas with eclectically costumed figures, including Roman soldiers, Andalusian mothers and a sky full of angels and DC-6s. The artist was personally congratulated by Franco himself...
...National, proved it to be a lively corpse. By offering low-price ($53.35 plus tax) aircoach fares from New York to Miami, and getting hotels to make special rates, National built up a big off-season traffic to Florida, went after the luxury winter trade with eight new DC-6s. In eleven months of 1950, thanks partly to better business for all airlines, National chalked up more than $2,000,000 profit (v. a loss of $20,000 the year before), was $381,487 in the black even before mail pay. Last week Baker got his reward: CAB dropped...