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...sell them twelve F-86 Sabre-jet fighters. During the past ten months, Ecuador got twelve Meteor fighters and six Canberra twin-jet medium bombers from Britain. Last week came the Peruvian retort: the government announced that it had signed up for 20 of Britain's late-model Hawker Hunters...
Since 1952, the heart of London's air defense against enemy attack has been provided by some 400 Sabre jets, furnished to the R.A.F. by the U.S. and Canada. Last week the British announced that they are returning the 400 Sabres and replacing them with swept-wing Hawker Hunters, made in Britain with the help of $140 million in U.S. defense aid. The 700-m.p.h. Hunter, first flown three years ago, has been haunted by development troubles but now that it is going into squadron service, the British feel they have a modern fighter that can hold...
...time he stayed alive by working in a coffinmaker's shop and as a street hawker of cheap souvenirs...
Under sharp questioning in the House of Commons last week, Under Secretary of State for Air George Ward made an admission that shocked Britain. The Royal Air Force's most promising operational jet fighter, the high-firepower, 650-m.p.h. Hawker Hunter, is stalled by an unlooked-for defect: when its four 30-mm. cannons are fired "at certain heights and in certain conditions of flight," its engine flames...
...bigger dividends (up 20% in 1954) and high earnings, London's bull market was fattened up last year by some $900 million worth of new capital pouring into the market v. $500 million in 1953. Among the biggest price gains: British Petroleum (formerly Anglo-Iranian), up 144%; Hawker Siddeley aircraft, up 90.6%; Unilever, up 72%; Rolls-Royce...