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...economy turns out greater and greater mountains of goods, the demand grows for trucks to haul them...
...SAME TIME, no amount of celebration can eclipse the truly splendid showing of the boys from Connecticut. It has been a long, hard haul for them (bus service out of New Haven isn't what it used to be), and they very nearly got what they deserved...
...permission to take contracts from RMK-BRJ, the big U.S. construction combine, and other U.S. firms, agreeing in return to pay a royalty to Air Viet Nam, the understaffed government airline that has a nominal monopoly on Vietnamese commercial air travel. Having assembled a motley but eminently suitable short-haul fleet led by eight vintage C-47 transports, CAS expects to take in at least $9,000,000 this year and make its first annual profit...
...other independents?a group that soon came to be known as the Argonauts?Onassis practiced a clever technique of self-financing. Because the oil companies were unwilling to tie up cash reserves in new hulls, he only asked them for long-term (seven years or more) charters to haul their crude. Armed with the charters, he made firm contracts with shipbuilders, banks and insurance concerns, pointing out that the new tankers, with life spans of up to 25 years, would earn back their cost in roughly a third of their working life...
Boeing's investment remains a gamble. At first, the 747 was designed for long-haul flights at bargain fares. But the original idea has been slightly altered. Fearful of being able to fill 490 economy seats-and of running their present jet fleets out of business-the airlines have all but abandoned the cheap-fare concept. To fill planes at current fares, many are opting for 350-seat layouts and devoting the rest of the space to such frills as 71-ft. movie screens and a "penthouse lounge" that converts to two twin-bed staterooms...