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...record air crash came last Dec. 16. when a TWA Super Constellation collided with a United Air Lines DC-8 jet over New York City, killed 134 (TIME...
Through a dismal midnight drizzle, the chartered DC-6B taxied toward the terminal building at Philadelphia's International Airport, with its cargo of the worst baseball team in the big leagues. The Philadelphia Phillies had just won a game. But the lonesome victory meant nothing, coming, as it did, at the end of the longest losing streak in modern baseball history (23 games). Through a rainfogged cabin window, Phillie Pitcher Frank Sullivan peered apprehensively out at the ramp, where a crowd of 250 damp Philadelphians stood like a lynch mob. "Get off the plane at one-minute intervals," Sullivan...
...boat incident was a setback for Miami's Harris in a one-man war he has been waging against Castro's Cuba. In the past five months. Harris has seized ten Cuban planes flown to the U.S. by defectors-five C46 cargo planes, three Piper Cubs, a DC-3B and a Cessna 180-as well as 3.5 million lbs. of lard purchased in the U.S. by Cuba and intercepted in Florida. He has sold these items for $200,000, is thus nearly halfway through his drive to recover $429,000 due him from the Cuban government because...
...Optimist. Seattle's Boeing gained an advantage over its rivals because it first sold its 707 as a tanker to the Air Force, and got most of its bugs fixed in doing so. (Flight-testing the DC-8 took 2,284 hours at costs of up to $10,000 an hour.) But Boeing earned its advantage by gambling $18 million to build a prototype for the Air Force to look at before it bought. With 40% of the world jet market, Boeing has so far sold 439 of its 707s, its medium-range 720s and its short-range 727s...
...concentrating on fewer models than General Dynamics. Douglas has managed to keep its cost on the long-range DC-8 jet down to $292 million. But with 172 DC-8s sold and 146 delivered, a Douglas spokesman admits that "we're still developing the plane.'' Back in the halcyon piston days, it cost Douglas only $42 million to bring forth the profitable DC-6. In the last two years the DC-8 has hit Douglas with $53 million in losses after balancing the costs against profits from other divisions...