Word: dc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accounting. Result: in 1963's expanding economy, after a monotonous downgrade run, C.P.R.'s earnings rose 24% to $40.1 million, the highest since 1957. Canadian Pacific Airlines also broke through the profit barrier to earn $350,000 in 1963 largely because of a wise investment in five DC-8 jets; even Canadian Pacific's hotels earned...
...predawn gloom at Leopold ville's Ndjili Airport, the DC-8 jetliner whined to a halt on the hardstand. Almost coyly, it poked its nose between a pair of aircraft chartered to ferry the last United Nations soldiers away from the Congo. From the hatch of the first-class compartment stepped a tall, plump man in a severe black suit, grinning like an African Fernandel. Burly, rifle-swinging Congolese cops and nervous Surete plainclothesmen hustled him into a black Chevy Impala with government plates, and off he sped into the flower-and sewage-scented dark. Thus last week with...
...stimulate travel, it pays the airline subsidies up to 30% on each ticket. West Berlin businessmen, doing 80% of their business outside the city, shuttle continuously by air to West Germany. For foreign tourists in Germany, the Berlin Wall has become a sightseeing must. Pan Am, flying 15 older DC-6Bs that are more economical than Air France's Caravelles or BEA's Viscounts, profits handsomely on yearly revenues of around $15 million...
...Wallops Island, Va., they bring their Boeing 707 slanting out of the sky at a limping 100 m.p.h.-50 m.p.h. slower than a standard jetliner. They float over the end of the runway and touch down at only 90 m.p.h.-as slow as an old-fashioned propeller-driven DC...
Cool Sun. When they set up their cameras in a Douglas DC-8 jetliner and flew high over Canada during last summer's eclipse, Drs. Guglielmo Righini of Italy and Armin J. Deutsch of the U.S. counted on snapping some of the clearest pictures yet of the sun's glowing corona. But up there above the dust, water vapor and other difficulties of the earth's atmosphere, the two astronomers told the Florence meeting of COSPAR (Committee on Space Research), they found far more than they expected. Their pictures of the sun's spectrum showed...