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Last week Curtice and Eastern Air Lines Chairman Eddie Rickenbacker jointly announced that Eastern's 40 new Lockheed Electra airliners, scheduled for service in 1958, will be powered by $26 million worth of Allison turboprop engines...
...announced a $100 million contract to Lockheed for the single-jet F-104A, which USAF Chief of Staff General Nathan Twining describes as "the fastest, highest-flying fighter in the air anywhere." The order follows a $100 million contract placed by Eastern Air Lines last month for 40 Lockheed Electra turboprop airliners and an Air Force order last fortnight for "over $100 million" worth of C-130A Hercules cargo planes, boosting Lockheed's backlog to over $1.4 billion...
...million, 40-plane fleet of 415-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra turboprops similar to those recently ordered by American Airlines. Captain Eddie sat down with Lockheed President Robert Gross and signed an order for 40 Electras with an option on 30 more, each one to carry 66 passengers first-class, up to 91 air coach...
Called the "Electra" after Lockheed's first 200-m.p.h. transport (1934), the new plane will be a big improvement over Britain's seven-year-eld Vickers Viscount, which now dominates the commercial turboprop field. Slim and hightailed, the Electra will have four engines, will cruise at 410-440 m.p.h. for flights up to 2,000 miles, 25% faster and 1,000 miles farther than current Viscounts. It will carry 64 passengers (compared to Viscount's 48) in a cabin with big picture windows, a lounge, and wider seats, each with a combination desk-tray...
Marlcdown. In Electra, Texas, arrested for forging a check to pay for a pair of cowboy boots, Jesse Smith explained: "The boots had been reduced from $38 to $32 and I just couldn't resist a bargain." The Background. In Dallas, Mrs. Chester Johnson, testifying that her husband had slashed her fur coat with a knife while she was wearing it, was asked where she got the coat, told the judge: "My husband asked the same question-he objected to another man giving me the coat and started slashing." Reward. In Louisville, Chester Fawbush helped foil...