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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes will be of two types: 44-passenger DC-45, with a top speed of 280 m.p.h., and so-passenger DC-6s, with a top speed of 335 m.p.h. American Airlines will get 55 planes, Panagra three and United 35. Within a week, United plans to contract for another 15 from Douglas. Similarly, Eastern Airlines is now mulling over an order for Douglas. The airlines know that the new planes will make hash of present schedules. The transcontinental time will go down from 18 hours to 8 hours 30 minutes...
...Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. was optimistic; Consolidated's engineers will be kept busy designing a wide range of non-flyable products. Example: last week Consolidated signed a contract with the Greyhound Corp. for the development of a super...
...important asset. By the time he decided to go independent, last year, he was Fox's highest-priced writer ($3,500 a week), was doing the lion's share of the studio's most important pictures, and was privileged to turn down the most desperately fat contract Hollywood has ever offered a writer-a flat five-year contract, for 52 weeks a year without options, at $4,500 a week, with six weeks' vacation at full...
Instead, Mr. Johnson is now incorporated as the Christy Corp. (named after his two-year-old daughter), which is to write and produce two pictures a year for International. Like Gary Cooper, also under exclusive contract as actor-producer, he will get 49% of the profits from every picture he produces. At the moment he has taken ten weeks off on a private deal to write a script which Cooper will produce and act in-again for International. For this side order he is getting a flat...
...highest of any Navy plane contractor (in June it was 60% above the average for the entire aircraft industry). And the price of Grumman planes, less motors and other Government-furnished equipment, has come down to an estimated $33,500, about a third under the contract price (the company gets one-fifth of the saving, the Navy the rest...