Word: boac
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DEEP in the timeless Jordanian desert, the three silvery jetcraft glinted like metallic mirages in the afternoon sun, their finned tails emblazoned with the insignia of three famed airlines: TWA. BOAC and Swissair. Then suddenly a huge explosion, then another and another. The planes crumpled, then burst into flame. From the burning wreckage rose columns of black smoke that were visible 25 miles away in Amman, where Arab guerrillas fired their guns in celebration...
Georg Walterspiel, co-owner of Munich's famed old Vier Jahreszeiten, predicts that new U.S. hotels will create "murderous competition in the top class." To meet the American competition, five foreign airlines-BOAC, British European Airways, Lufthansa, Alitalia and Swissair-have teamed up with the London investment banking house of S.G. Warburg and four Eu~-ropean banks to form European Hotel Corp. The combine plans $50 million worth of hotels for the neglected low-price end of the market in London, Paris, Rome, Frankfurt, Munich and Zurich. The American challenge last month prompted a merger by two of Britain...