Word: bac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still important market. Lured by the economy of jet planes and lifted by their earnings from increased traffic, regional airlines around the U.S. have been moving into the jet age, casting off decrepit DC-3s and aging Convairs, which gave them their start. British Aircraft Corp., with its BAC-111, and both Boeing and Douglas have tapped the regional market with small, fast jet airplanes designed for short runs and shorter runways...
...musical special, "Let the Desert Be Joyful," featuring the Tucson Boys Chorus performing at the 18th century Spanish mission, San Xavier del Bac, known as "the white dove of the desert...
...stint. Finding dry land to implant batteries of howitzers is difficult. More armed helicopters could fill the gap, but they require airports, which in the Delta must be built up with imported gravel. Can Tho airfield proudly announces that it is seven feet above sea level, and the Bac Lieu airstrip sports a sign giving its elevation as "Dry season: two feet above sea level. Rainy season: two feet below sea level...
Like a loving, wealthy mother with a homely daughter, Britain's Labor government for months has hinted at, prompted and hoped for a marriage between the forlorn British Aircraft Corp. and the airframe interests of the handsomely profitable Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd. BAC was shyly willing; Hawker Siddeley was reluctant. Whereupon the old lady-Her Majesty's government-stepped in, urged a sort of shotgun merger...
Minister of Aviation Fred Mulley announced in the House of Commons that instead of its Boeings, BEA must buy made-in-Britain aircraft, with a choice between the Hawker-Siddeley Trident III, the Vickers VC-10 and the BAC-One-Eleven. The equivalent number of British airplanes would cost BEA about $56 million more than the Boeings, but, said Mulley, the government itself would make up the difference. Hearing the news, BEA Chairman Sir Anthony Milward, who holds his job only at the pleasure of the government, bleakly announced that the company's initials should no longer stand...