Word: boac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...despair of British taxpayers, government-owned British Overseas Airways Corp. seems unable to decide whether it should be a profit-making enterprise or a showcase for the country's aircraft industry. Until 1963, when it turned a $16.8 million profit, BOAC had flown in the red since 1959. Last week it found itself in the center of some political turbulence that is almost certain to cause it further financial trouble. Criticizing the airline's management, Labor M.P. Roy Jenkins summed up BOAC's unhappy times: "The trouble started three aircraft types, four chairmen, five ministers of aviation...
...patience, and few ad agencies care to go to all that trouble. As a result, the field has been taken over by specialists. The biggest and busiest is Manhattan's Leonard Fellman, 47, whose 17-man agency serves 20 companies on a regular basis (including Du Pont, BOAC, National Car Rental and Holiday Inns) and does work for 300 other companies a year. Most of the ads are placed in magazines and newspapers, but this week Fellman is starting a TV department as well...
Mary Caroline d'Erlanger, 24, daughter of BOAC's late chief, Sir Gerard d'Erlanger, prefers the nickname Minnie. Her fiancé, Winston Spencer Churchill, 23, on the other hand, strenuously resists Winnie, and as anyone who has tangled with his grandfather can testify, Churchills are stubborn. Randolph's Oxford-educated son has other family traits: 1) a fondness for travel and journalism that last year sent him on a four-month tour of 40 African and Middle Eastern countries, will result in a book, First Journey, due in the U.S. in January, 2) freckles...
...BOAC, Let's Go Europe...
Compared with last year's reservations for flights from April 1 to July 1, Pan Am's bookings to Europe are up 30% and TWA's 58% . Even more spectacular is the surge in reservations for flights to the U.S.; Alitalia and BOAC both have increases of more than 100% , while Air France, SAS, KLM, Lufthansa and Swissair have gained 12% to 30% . Airline executives expect a record number of tourists to be attracted to the U.S. by the bargain fares, coinciding as they do with the opening of the New York World's Fair...