Word: comets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Douglas also expects to sell the plane to foreign lines, fears no competition from Britain's Comet. While the Comet will go faster between stops, Douglas thinks that the DC-7 will beat it in elapsed time because it will not have to make the refueling stops needed by the shorter-range Comet. Douglas is still tight-lipped about its own plans for jet transports, but the DC-7, says Vice President Arthur Raymond, "is definitely our last piston-type transport of the DC-7 size...
Smith, boss of the biggest U.S. airline,* this week threw cold water on the idea that U.S. domestic carriers will soon adopt jet transports such as the British Comet...
Said Smith: "The time for that is more distant than some are willing to believe." The basic trouble with the Comet, Smith told a transportation conference at Syracuse University, is that its tremendous fuel consumption (10,000 lbs. per hour) cuts down the space left for payload. Other drawbacks: "It is inefficient at low altitude and at reduced power...
Newspapers such as the New Orleans States, Thibodaux, La. Lafourche Comet, and Opelousas, La. Daily World, which experimented with bagasse paper, say it is whiter and stronger than Canadian newsprint. Nobody really thought bagasse would ever take over the Canadian mills' U.S. markets. But publishers hoped that the threat of bagasse competition would keep Canadian prices in line...
Buckingham Palace announced that Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret will fly by Comet jet airliner from London to Southern Rhodesia next June to open a Cecil Rhodes centenary exhibition...