Word: avro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...giant Hawker Siddeley Group and wartime head of A. V. Roe & Co., makers of the famed Lancaster bomber; of lung cancer; in Midhurst, England. The emphasis was on fighters in 1940, and Aircraft Czar Lord Beaverbrook turned Dobson down when he asked permission to build a super-bomber; Avro tackled the project on its own, by war's end had produced 7,500 "Lancs" which helped pound Nazi Germany into rubble...
...many taxes, adds some new ones and provides penalties of up to 500% for tardy payers. To add insult to injury, Onganía showed that he was not in the least fearful of the unions. As his government moved firmly against labor, he hopped into his light blue Avro jetprop early in the week and took off on a six-day visit to Argentina's remote, southern region of Patagonia. "I have no other solution for the country," he shrugs, "but to be unpopular...
...some $700,000, compared with $900,000 for Northrop's slower (Mach-1.3) F-5 Freedom Fighter (see U.S. BUSINESS). Brazil claims that five-year terms are the best it can get in the U.S.; the British are offering ten years. As a result, the Brazilians ordered ten Avro-748s from Britain last month, and took an option for more...
...lake on one side and the beach on the other; the two halves are connected by a specially built tunnel under the highway that Mrs. Guinness has had decorated with furniture and screens painted by a young French artist she is interested in. They also keep three planes-an Avro Commander for short hauls around Europe, a small jet, a helicopter for Loel Guinness' hops between the Lake Worth house and the Palm Beach golf course...