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...busy. A wholesale drug supplier furnished a single vial of Varidase; it was hustled to Idlewild airport. Within six hours of the message from Oporto, the vial was on its way to London on an Israeli airlines plane; within a few more hours, a BOAC airliner set it down in Lisbon. Father Santos was waiting, hurried home with the vial in a Portuguese military plane...
...just a publicity stunt for BOAC. Washington's Educational Services, a serious-minded outfit dedicated to the proposition of "Recordings for more effective learning," had arranged the show to promote the latest wrinkle in learning-while-sleeping devices. Educational Services is planning to put out a tape-recording kit with instructions for learning anything from good behavior (for children) to old Danish...
...without using U.S. planes until its jet transports were ready. The Ministry of Supply, which buys all aircraft for the government's three big international lines, ordered 16 Tudor Is for British Overseas Airways Corp. When the Tudor Is were tested, their performance was so poor that BOAC refused to accept them. Eventually British South American Airways took four Tudor IVs for its South Atlantic run and Avro kept on building them...
...Ceiling. The British Overseas Airways Corp., largest of Britain's three government-owned airlines, reported that it lost about $32,500,000 in its first year of postwar commercial operations (ending in March 1947). BOAC blamed most of the loss on the uneconomic planes it has been forced...
Across the Atlantic, where our equipment is as modern as that of any airline . . . BOAC frequencies have reached eight round-trips weekly, and during a recent period BOAC carried the highest number of passengers per plane between the terminal points of New York and Montreal and London. Incidentally, in addition to the five Constellations which you mentioned, BOAC will also, in the early part of next year, add six Boeing Stratocruisers...