Word: boyds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Problems Ahead. The belated U.S. drive for a supersonic is complicated by some questions about the economics of the plane. At the Senate hearings, Civil Aeronautics Board Chairman Alan S. Boyd warned that supersonics may prove so costly to operate that they will force U.S. airlines back on to Government subsidy. But the hurry-up argument for building a supersonic jetliner comes from the belief that unless it develops its own, the U.S. will slowly and inevitably lose its aviation-design leadership to Europe...
Married. Elizabeth Berlin, 26, youngest daughter of Composer Irving Berlin, who at 75 flew across the Atlantic to give the bride away; and Edmund Boyd Fisher, 24, son of British Ornithologist James Fisher; in London...
...hear Freshman Senator Kennedy's complaints, the CAB formally took the Florida run away from Northeast. It ordered the financially ailing airline to stop all operations south of New York by Oct. 14, concentrate on its lagging service in New England. "It became apparent," CAB Chairman Alan S. Boyd told Senators, "that New England was the tail and Florida was the dog-and Northeast was interested...
...carriers buy British short-range jets, and kicked up a ruckus in the airline industry with its highhanded advice to Pan American and W. R. Grace to sell Panagra to Braniff. "I'm doing the job the best way I know how," says Chairman Boyd, "and I expect the staff and members to perform in the same way. I don't give a damn whose toes get stepped...
...Democrat Boyd, who joined the board under Eisenhower and was named chairman by Kennedy, privately concedes that the board is slow and unwieldy. The board regularly divides between its two Republicans and two Democrats, with Boyd the decisive vote. By siding with the Republican members to cut back Northeast, Boyd faced the economic reality that Northeast should never have been given the Florida route extension in the first place...