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...BOAC commercial on U.S. radio stations last week...
Better, indeed. In half a dozen.American cities this month, British Overseas Airways Corp. began promoting a $350 round-trip air excursion to England that included more than the usual palace-to-pub tour. BOAC's 13-day "The Beautiful Singles of London" tour offered Yankee tourists the added incentive of meeting three "scientifically chosen" British dates at airline-organized cocktail parties. There was even more in store for those who signed...
...profitable high-density routes, Eagle got hand-me-downs; it was authorized to fly to such secondary tourist centers as Rimini and Gerona. The government really plucked Eagle's feathers when it decided to ferry troops overseas aboard R.A.F. VC-10s instead of Eagle planes. Finally, when BOAC complained that Eagle was trying to turn a low-rate, special-tour authorization to the Caribbean into a regular run, the licensing board revoked Eagle's authorization to fly there. It thereby wiped away $5,000,000 in annual revenues for the airline. Hambros Bank Ltd., the prestigious London banking...
...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...