Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Other top candidates for appointment are Detroit Mayor Coleman Young, who gave Carter crucial backing in the Michigan primary; Jesse Hill, president of the Atlanta Life Insurance Co.; Herman Russell, an Atlanta contractor; Mayor Richard Hatcher of Gary, Ind.; John Cox, a Delta Airlines consultant who was the only well...
Eighteen years ago next month, a National Airlines plane leased from Pan American took off from New York for Miami. It was a routine flight except that the plane had no propellers. Commercial jetliner service in the U.S. had begun, and with it the inescapable problem that faces people and...
Renewed Strength. But in recent months the picture has brightened somewhat, boosting spirits of airline officials and the big U.S. planemakers alike. The major carriers, which as a group lost $250 million last year, are benefiting from more passengers and stable (though high) fuel costs. The result: they could well...
Boeing's business is running ahead of the company's own gloomy projections. It now has 151 orders v. 99 a year ago, most of them from domestic airlines. The Boeing 747 plant at Everett, Wash., the world's largest building in terms of capacity (200 million...
Along its 17,860-mile system from Chicago to Honolulu, Continental Airlines has attracted considerable attention-and some charges of sexism -with its "We really move our tail for you" advertising campaign. At 12:01 a.m. Oct. 23, Continental's tail stopped moving. Its 47 Boeing 727s and 16...