Word: cv
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...huge new air-travel market. Just as he had worked with Douglas on the DC-3, he encouraged the firm to build the four-motored, long-range DC-6s, boldly ordered a fleet of 125 DC-6s and shortrange, two-engined Consolidated Vultee CV-240s. As usual, he showed himself a master at timing and bargaining. So eager was Consolidated (now Convair) for orders to relieve its postwar slump that he got the 240s for the rock-bottom price of $225,000 each; even now, American is selling them for nearly what it paid...