Word: dc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evening, cooling breezes blew down from the mountains, and the mariachi music lasted far into the night. In the early 1950s a dozen or so Americans went to live in Vallarta. Friends came to visit-and hurried back on their own. Before long, Mexicana Airlines started flying in DC-3s, then DC-6s daily from Mexico City and Los Angeles. The boom...
Everything about the party was high. It took place at 33,000 ft. aboard a DC-8 en route from Montreal to Paris. The cake was in the shape of a straw hat, and the nightlong free champagne was Moët et Chandon 1955. It was Trans Canada Air Lines' way of bidding happy birthday to Maurice Chevalier, 75. Said the septuagenarian on landing: "I haven't closed my eyes since I left Montreal, but I don't feel tired at all." Will he ever retire? "I'd like to do a movie with Brigitte...
Egbert is rapidly diversifying Studebaker into nonauto lines, from chemicals to ice cream cabinets. Last year he spent $47 million on four acquisitions, including Trans International Airlines, whose one DC-8 and four Constellations haul passengers on charter. Egbert is also expanding into the international market with Studebaker's Franklin Manufacturing, which sells refrigerators and freezers to mail-order houses. Other subsidiaries include Clarke floor polishers, Gravely small tractors, Onan engines and generators. Together, the safer nonauto lines account for 50% of Studebaker sales and have kept the company afloat...
...gambling mood after having lost $425 million on production of its Convair 880 and 990 jet liners; besides, it recently won the rich and controversial TFX fighter contract, and would be quite unlikely to bag two in a row from Washington. Douglas is preoccupied with its new short-range DC-9, for which it has only a disappointing 18 orders; in addition, President Donald Douglas Jr., 46, who has become the active manager of the company, is less daring than his father, Chairman Donald Douglas Sr., 71. As for McDonnell, its flinty Chairman James McDonnell, 64, would have liked...
...fare has greatly simplified United's reservations operations, but more than just business considerations prompted Pat Patterson to introduce one-class service. Two years ago, when a United DC-8 ran off a runway in Denver and hit a truck, 16 passengers died not from the impact of the crash but from burns and fume inhalation after crowded conditions in the coach section prevented them from getting out. Patterson is still bothered by the tragedy. Asks he: "Do narrow aisles and sardine seating provide adequate evacuation of jet aircraft? In all good conscience, just how many passengers...