Word: braniff
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Braniff, ninth largest of the trunk lines, flamboyant Harding Lawrence, 46, took charge last year and has already lifted its earnings 58% by tripling its jet fleet and adding such eye-catching innovations as ocher-painted planes, gaudy interior decor and hostesses in Pucci dresses...
Intending to change the situation, the Civil Aeronautics Board's Bureau of Enforcement last week filed formal complaints against nine airlines: American, Braniff, Continental, National, Northwest, Pan American, Trans Caribbean, TWA and United. The bureau asked that the carriers be forced to close their "separate and unequal" facilities at major airports. A separate complaint against American was filed with the CAB by Herbert A. Goldberger, a Providence businessman, after he was denied admission last December to the line's special waiting rooms. "I felt like I'd been sent to the back of the bus," he said...
...gaudy. Even in the office, as he feeds IBM cards into the computer, the Fidelity man is certainly a credit to de corps. No longer is there suppressed boyhood envy of the white-suited Good Humor man, no longer jealousy of bankers' grey. A fig for Braniff stewardesses in Pucci bloomers. Even those Avis chaps with their blazers and TRY buttons shrink to insignificance when one no longer has to go to work one day in a blue suit, another day in brown. No more agonizing morning quandaries over what tie to wear! Except, of course, for Fidelity...
...layovers in the shop, helping to raise daily operating time of its aircraft to as much as 17 hours, well above the industry's norms. Six has been able to recruit outstanding executives. For seven years his No. 2 man was Harding Lawrence, now the successful president of Braniff. Last year Six hired Pierre Salinger, the former presidential press secretary who, as Continental's vice president for international affairs, certainly has not hurt its drive for U.S. Government business...
...Pentagon gets preference on the production lines, and heavy military demand has led to a shortage of jet engines for the civilian market. With delivery delays as long as a month, United, Braniff, Delta, and other lines are planning to postpone new services or make do with piston planes. Two weeks ago, Eastern canceled 5% of its flights "temporarily;" Eastern has enough piston planes for those runs-but, oddly, not enough pilots with sufficient piston training. Promising a "round-the-clock" program to familiarize its jet-age crews with the old planes, Eastern said that it would be back...