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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system enables American to load or unload a 112-passenger Boeing 707, rain or shine, in three to five minutes. The line intends to install the jet boarding system in other U.S. cities before year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jet-Age Boarding | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...FREIGHT RATE SLASH of 50% is expected after delivery of turboprop cargo planes ordered by Pan American World Airways from Lockheed at cost of $60 million. Scheduled for early 1962 delivery, the twelve Super Hercules planes will carry 35-ton payload nonstop across Atlantic, cruise at 360 m.p.h...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: TIME CLOCK, Aug. 10, 1959 | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

With the thought that climbing an old-fashioned ramp to board a jet plane is like using a ladder to mount a race horse, American Airlines last week introduced the first true jet-age boarding system. At a cost of more than $100,000, it put into operation at San Francisco's International Airport a system of "jetwalks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Jet-Age Boarding | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...METALS American Can 1.07 1.28 Revere Copper & Brass .79 1.99 National Lead 1.70 2.21 Alcoa .88 1.32 Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EARNINGS: Increases for All | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

...first quarter, TWA reported first-half earnings of $1.6 million, expects "better than substantial" profits for the year v. a $1.8 million loss last year when it was in the worst position of any major U.S. airline (TIME, Dec.1). This week TWA, which received its jets after competitors American and Pan American, will add jet service to Philadelphia and Kansas City, bringing to ten the number of cities that its jets serve. TWA benefited from break-in bugs that other lines have found in Boeing 707s (TIME, June 8), which helped it maintain a topflight, on-time performance, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANAGEMENT: New Course for TWA | 8/10/1959 | See Source »

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