Word: 8s
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canada, flying one round trip each week, will use DC-8s. On foreign flights, Aeroflot now uses huge 170-passenger, two-deck TU-114 turboprops, but for the Montreal run it may inaugurate the new 200-passenger Ilyushin 62s, which have four engines mounted in pods at the tail, as well as a fancy jet-age decor replacing the Victorian look of older Russian airplanes...
...months. Most of all, Douglas has been hit by a slowdown in deliveries of Pratt & Whitney jet engines, diverted to fighter planes bound for Viet Nam. As a consequence, Douglas expects that it will have to delay until next year the completion of up to three DC-8s and 15 DC-9s anxiously awaited by airlines. During 1966, says President Donald Douglas Jr., "the company's earnings, if any, will be nominal...
...more route miles. United now has 149 jets and 18,000 miles of routes connecting 116 cities; last year it carried 17,340,000 passengers. Revenues last year reached $792.8 million and earnings $45.8 million. This autumn, service to Hawaii will include the first 250-passenger "stretch-model" DC-8s to be delivered. The airline is also gradually taking delivery on $750 million worth of new planes, and hopes to win a Pacific route to Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong and Thailand...
...United have little choice but to follow suit, and it is possible that Douglas or Lockheed will land a contract from some of them. No matter what happens to Douglas and its DC-10, it has already taken orders for 72 of its stretched-out DC-8s, which can carry as many as 251 passengers...
...even why the British decided to divide a pound of silver into 20 shillings and 240 pence, but everyone agrees that the system is a bedeviling bother. It irritates international bankers, confuses tourists and even sends British shoppers away muttering in frustration. To escape from its complicated structure (?2 8s. 6d. for a bottle of Scotch), many Commonwealth and former Commonwealth countries are switching to the decimal currency system used by 95% of the world's people. Barbados and other sterling bloc territories in the British West Indies converted in 1955, South Africa in 1961. The Bahamas will switch...