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Despite the sorry sales record, the planemakers are gamely pushing ahead. Besides Lockheed, corporate jets are being built by North American, Aero Commander and Lear. Britain's entry is the De Havilland DH-125. France's Dassault plans to introduce its twin-jet Mystère 20 in the spring; Hamburger Flugzeugbau is making a six-passenger plane; and Italy's Piaggio, maker of the famed Vespa motor scooter, has teamed up with Douglas Aircraft to build the PD-808, known as the "Vespa...
...degree the British Comet and Viscount and the Dutch F-27 Friendship have made some inroads into what used to be almost an exclusively American market. There may be more important inroads soon. Pan American is quietly negotiating with Britain's Hawker Siddeley to buy at least 40 DH-125 jets, which it intends to man with its pilots and lease to corporations. Originally, Pan Am intended to use Lockheed JetStars, but the DH-125, at $550,000, costs only one-third as much...
...Belle Américaine. A running gag about U.S. automobiles that sometimes stalls but usually crowds the speed limit; written, directed and acted by Robert (La Plume de Ma Tante) Dhéry, a French comedian who is rapidly emerging as a sort of tatty Tati...
...title is Dhéry's first gag. La Belle Américaine is not a dame but an automobile: a custom-built 1958 Olds convertible complete with bar, refrigerator, automatic everything and six blast-your-eyes-out headlights. This insolent chariot is sold to Hero Dhéry, a boob in the tube works, for the preposterous price of $100. Reason: the owner in his will bequeathed the price of the car to his mistress, but authorized his wife to make the sale...
...hardly room to park. Then he takes half the quartier out for a spin; runs out of gas. Next day he drives to work. When the boss gets a load of that showboat parked next to his own heap, he fires the hero on the spot. Two days later, Dhéry gets a new job as a chauffeur: his boss is the mistress, who promptly locks the poor lunk in the trunk, drives by the wife's house and hollers yoo-hoo. After 20 hours in the trunk, the hero escapes, recaptures the car, on the way home...