Word: boac
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sick economy. Similar labor strife has poisoned industrial relations across the U.K. Most of the jet fleet of British Overseas Airways Corp. lay idle at Heathrow Airport last week because of a strike by 1,050 pilots, who demand that their salaries be doubled to $31,000 a year. BOAC Chairman Sir Giles Guthrie calls the pilots "spoiled children." A three-week-old wildcat strike by 187 female upholstery stitchers has shut down British Ford's huge Dagenham plant, idling 5,000 workers and interrupting the output of autos for the export trade that Britain must increase...
...possibly picked at random from a city directory. Using his new identity, Ray submitted a passport application. Because of Canada's ludicrously simple passport procedures-which demand, in effect, that the applicant merely swear that he is Canadian-he was granted one. On May 6 he flew BOAC to London, and the next day on to Portugal...
...York to Hawaii and the Orient. Passenger stopover privileges on these flights, now limited to San Francisco and Los Angeles, could be expanded to other West Coast cities. All of which would put Pan Am on a better footing with its main Pacific rivals: Qantas, Japan Air Lines and BOAC...
...reliable supporter. In one breathtaking column for the Review, he managed to equate Henry Ford's divorce with the suicides of Publisher Philip Graham and Stephen Ward, Christine Keeler's keeper. All were men, wrote Buckley "wanting in the stuff of spiritual survival." Ford yanked its advertising. BOAC, on the other hand, is one of the Review's most faithful advertisers. Muses Buckley: "Maybe only a state-owned airline can afford to advertise in National Review...
...Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Libya dropped their oil embargo against the U.S. and Britain and reaffirmed their promise to subsidize Egypt and Jordan to the tune of $392 million a year as long as "traces of Israeli aggression" persist. Egypt and Sudan restored landing rights to Britain's BOAC, and Egypt was on the verge of allowing T.W.A. back into Cairo. Even those two archenemies among the Arabs-Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser and Saudi Arabia's King Feisal-were talking to each other. After agreeing to end their five-year war in Yemen, Nasser unfroze more...