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American Airlines put a big bet this week on the future of air freight. To Douglas Aircraft went a $4,250,000 contract to turn ten of American's piston-engined DC-7B airliners into air freighters. All passenger fittings will be ripped out; the relatively new (four years or less) luxury planes will get heavy-duty floors, stronger fuselages, two huge cargo doors. When the last of the freighter 73 goes into service next year, it will give American a 20-plane cargo fleet with more than twice the line's current capacity...
AIRLINE JET PILOT'S pay will climb to $26,800 a year. First U.S. jet-age contract, signed by National Airlines and Air Line Pilots Association, sets figure as top gross pay for senior captain of four-jet Douglas DC-8 (v. $21,600 for piston-engine DC-7B...
Slicker Service. To boost profits to pay for such expansion-and compete with bigger lines-Continental plans plush service all the way. Beginning April 28, the twice-daily Chicago-Denver-Los Angeles DC-7B flights (one way: $76, plus food and drinks) will be the first regular all-coach service operated with the same trimmings as first-class service...
...years-with most of the progress made in the past five. In 1952 Continental was still an obscure regional trunk line serving a few Western cities. Today its routes cover nearly half the nation. Its net last year alone almost doubled to $710,426. When its first gleaming DC-7B sweeps down over Los Angeles, carrying coach-fare passengers in luxury style, Continental will become a major competitor in the nation's aviation network...
...three boys were dead or dying, 78 others hurt. Dead also: the airliner's four-man crew and Scorpion Pilot Owen. Scorpion Radarman Adams parachuted out, landed badly burned and unable to contribute an explanation of the collision. Busy at his radar, he had not seen the DC-7B until an instant before the planes...