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What touched it off was the DC-7 that American introduced last November -the first plane scheduled to fly both ways nonstop from Los Angeles to New York. American's advertised schedules of 7 hrs. 15 min. nonstop from Los Angeles, and 8 hrs. 40 min. one-stop from San Francisco, were anywhere from 40 min. to 2 hrs. 45 min. faster than competing airlines. Result: large chunks of United's and T.W.A.'s blue-ribbon business have flown off in American...
MOSCOW arr. .. . 1200 hrs. (Moscow time...
Henceforth, said Peking, trains will leave for Moscow every Monday and Thursday. Running time: 8 days 23 hrs...
...direction takes both knowledge and skill. Pan Am gathered all available data and added observations of its own. Last year, its meteorologists felt they knew enough to take the plunge. The Stratocruisers were regularly scheduled to fly nonstop from Tokyo. The first flight made Honolulu in 11½ hrs. instead...
...full use of it at present. For them and for future jet liners, its possibilities are striking. Two weeks ago, the stream was clocked at 425 knots (489 m.p.h.) over Spokane. If a 6-47 had climbed into it, it might have flown to New York in 2½ hrs...