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...million this year. A number of lines are using the renewed strength to do what many of them have not done in years: buy new planes. American. Braniff and Northwest have placed orders with Boeing for 23 727-200s (value: $251 million). Eastern has ordered nine DC-9s from McDonnell Douglas. In September, United Airlines, the nation's largest air carrier, handed Boeing its biggest order from any major U.S. airline in eight years: 28 727-200s worth $350 million, including spare parts...
...than at any time since the early 1970s when the 747 jumbo was new and the competitive rush to put it into service was at its peak. McDonnell Douglas expects to deliver 18 jumbo DC-10s next year, about the same as this year, plus nearly 40 smaller DC-9s between now and the end of 1977. Even scandal-scarred Lockheed Aircraft is doing moderately well with its jumbo TriStar. Lockheed failed to book a single TriStar order during 1975, but it sold six extended-range TriStars to British Airways last summer. It plans to deliver a dozen...
...provide few surprises for the Iranians. They have been bartering raw materials for industrial products ever since the 1930s. But it would be a whole new way of doing business for the defense contractors. Only McDonnell Douglas has had a similar experience. In 1969 Yugoslavia wanted to buy DC-9s, but did not have enough dollars. So McDonnell Douglas agreed to help by marketing Yugoslavian goods, including hams, in the U.S. For years thereafter, the standing joke in the company's executive dining room was: "Here come the rest of those Yugoslavian hams." Oil, presumably, would be easier...
...maneuvered in flight to avoid Soviet missile defenses. Such improved accuracy would give the U.S. a better chance of destroying Soviet land-based ICBMS. A danger: this first-strike capacity could upset the nuclear balance in the same way that the Soviets would if they MlRVed all their SS-9s and SS-18s. Congress also approved continued development of the Trident missile submarine and the B-l strategic bomber...
...deal depends on how the Soviets behave, the U.S. does not appear to have lost anything of substance, at least for now. It has, in fact, scored some important gains: a stop in the recent rapid Soviet offensive buildup, including a halt in the production of the fearsome SS-9s and any later systems...