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...Cousin Rachel (20th Century-Fox), co-starring Newcomer Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland, who is hopeful of a third best-actress Oscar (previous awards: 1946, 1949). The studio's dark horse: Stars and Stripes Forever, with Clifton Webb playing the late John Philip Sous'a (see below...
...today heighten the cost of living for the consumer. They cheat the producer of the advantage and necessity of meeting competition in foreign markets . . . Mr. Trippe's decision to keep abreast of the times by purchasing $6,300,000 worth of jet liners from Britain's De Havilland Co. . . . makes possible foreign sale of American goods, which are in demand; they can't be given away or loaned; they must be traded...
...word announcement, Pan American World Airways this week surprised and dismayed the American aircraft industry. The announcement: Pan Am has ordered three Comet jet liners from Britain's De Havilland Co. at an estimated cost of $6,300,000, they are the first foreign planes, according to the Air Transport Association, ever ordered by a U.S. line. Pan Am, which expects to get the planes in 1956, also has an option to purchase seven more for delivery in 1957. As a warning to U.S. planemakers, Pan Am's President Juan Trippe added: the deal with De Havilland would...
From a competitive standpoint, Pan Am made the deal with De Havilland because it had little choice. Unlike any other U.S. line, Pan Am competes around the globe with British airways. As long as the British intend to put Comets on their routes, Pan Am has to have jets ready also, if only for prestige and to gain jet plane experience. There was no doubt that the British had won an important skirmish in the battle for commercial jet supremacy. The victory may also turn out to be the best thing that could have happened to American plane builders. They...
Proudly, Britain's De Havilland Aircraft Co., Ltd. last week announced delivery of the last of nine Comet I jet airliners to British Overseas Airways Corp. By early 1953, BOAC hopes to have the fleet flying on a London-Tokyo route as well as to South Africa, Colombo and Singapore. De Havilland hopes to have all the bugs of jet operation eliminated-and perhaps be flying its Comet III-before the U.S. gets a commercial jet transport into...