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...easily fly the Atlantic nonstop. The 69-passenger DC-7 is 40 inches longer than the DC-6B, carries five more passengers. Other features: an air-conditioning system which operates on the ground as well as in the air; special soundproofing. Douglas already has orders for 58 DC-7s (25 each to American and United Airlines, four each to Delta and National), will soon begin delivery at $1,700,000 each...
...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...
...waged its war in the air against negligible Red opposition- a few propeller-driven Yak 3s, 7s, 9s and 15s, some Ilyushin 10s. This week, the Air Force heard what might prove to be serious news. A number of new-type Russian-made jet fighters, said a MacArthur communique, had been sighted in action over Chongju. The Reds' new plane was described as "smaller than the American F-80, with swept-back wings, a stubby fuselage and blunt nose...
Searching for the answers, a topflight British opinion-sampling organization called Mass-Observation interviewed 500 people in a semi-suburban borough of London. The results, published in a book called Puzzled People (Victor Gollancz, 7s. 6d.), do not add up to a complete cross section of British religious thinking. Nonetheless, Puzzled People makes profitable reading for churchmen, sociologists and trendspotters in the U.S. as well as England. Highlights...
...winning their battle, the Russians made good use of Lend-Lease Airacobras, sturdy DB-7s (Bostons), all-purpose A20 attack bombers. But the backbone of victory was formed of Russia...