Word: jumbos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AVIATION REVOLUTION (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Chet Huntley examines six pressing problems of commercial aviation: aircraft safety, crew fatigue, noise abatement, air traffic control, terminal congestion, and the jumbo and supersonic jets that will soon make their appearance. Repeat...
...Flying Tiger, which has no regular overseas routes, has applied to the Civil Aeronautics Board to begin nonmilitary service to the Far East. Confident of getting the go-ahead, the company last year opened a new $4.5 million base in Los Angeles, also ordered ten of Douglas' new jumbo-size DC-8s to increase its long-haul capacity. With that expansion came the need to beef up top management...
...which it seems to have done successfully. With parts for the prototype arriving daily at Boeing's Renton, Wash., plant, and the plane's first flight due in about 27 months, the nation's largest aerospace company has so far sold 102 of the jumbo jets at a price of more than $20 million apiece...
...squad's captain and number one man last year, had a struggle getting a spot on the team after a poor showing on the Spring trip. He won challenge matches during the week though and played number five yesterday, nudging his Lord Jeff foe, 2 and 1, and his Jumbo opponent. 1 up on the 19th...
...South Vietnamese jail. When he was captured ten months ago, he was taken to a jail in the delta town of My Tho (there were no prisoner-of-war camps in the region at the time). Recently, an alert South Vietnamese policeman noticed the strong resemblance between the jumbo photos of Be in the Hanoi press and a rather withdrawn Viet Cong prisoner in a corner cell. Astounded to hear of his courageous exploits, Be soon saw the wisdom of his interrogators' assurance that he was valuable to the Viet Cong only as a dead Red, and thus could...