Word: bac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...objective," says Lawrence, "is to make Braniff emerge as the most efficient jet operator in the world." Though only ten of its 52 planes are jets, Braniff expects to take delivery this year of 14 British-made BAC-111 medium-range jets, has options to buy a dozen more. The airline, whose routes range as far north as Minneapolis and as far south as Buenos Aires, has also applied for the Dallas-Miami run and for flights between the Pacific Southwest and Northwest. And Harding Lawrence's selection gave new life to rumors that Braniff and Continental will eventually...
...huge potential market for short-to medium-range jets for the world's airlines. The U.S. plane is the DC-9, a trim, red-white-and-blue craft that Douglas has rushed out a month ahead of schedule. And just in time, too: the British twin-jet BAC One-Eleven has been flying away with the orders...
...ahead with the plane's development, the company is sending its salesmen around the U.S. in an effort to convince the airlines that the 737 is the ideal replacement for aging props and turboprop planes, and to persuade them to hold off ordering the new British BAC One-Eleven or the Douglas...
...families in the south with relatives who went to the north. This is also the fervent wish of the religious sects, and of the students . . . The push northward [is] an appropriate means of fulfilling our national history." Then the little general led the throng in loud shouts of "Bac lien!" ("To the north...
...exam results to be compared with a student's regular work. Those scoring suspiciously well will get an oral grilling. President Charles de Gaulle was so peeved by the inglorious mess that at a Cabinet meeting he asked his Education Minister: "Alors, Fouchet, and about this bac?" Replied Fouchet, with grumpy high-score logic: "The whole thing would never have happened if Marseille weren't in France...