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Word: airwork (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Sir Myles Wyatt, 64, British aviation magnate, who built a small aeronautical company into British United Airways, Europe's biggest privately owned airline; in Colchester, England. In 1934, Wyatt joined Airwork Ltd., an aviation-equipment supplier, became managing director in 1938, in the postwar years snapped up smaller independent airlines to form BUA, and in 1961 created Air Holdings Ltd., a financial umbrella for the group, which recently agreed to purchase 50 Lockheed airbuses for $750 million, intending to use or resell the planes overseas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Apr. 26, 1968 | 4/26/1968 | See Source »

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