Word: linings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First to Shift. American's role in introducing the U.S. public to the jet age will be greater than any other line's. It carries 8,000,000 passengers per year, one in every six Americans who fly in the U.S., and almost twice as many revenue passengers as all overseas U.S. airlines combined. Already its Boeing 707 jetliners are whooshing back and forth across the U.S. on shakedown flights as regular as scheduled trips, cutting cross-continent flight time by more than three hours: 5½ hours from New York to Los Angeles, 4½ hours...
...billion that U.S. airlines will spend by 1962 on 400 new jetliners and improved ground facilities, American will plunk down $440 million, by far the biggest sum of any airline, become the first to shift its line completely to jets. American has ordered $365 million worth of new planes to be delivered by 1962: 25 Boeing 707s for long-distance flights, 25 shorter-range Boeings, 35 Lockheed Electra turboprops for short hops, and 25 Convair 600s, which, if the plane lives up to its billing, will be the world's fastest commercial jet (635 m.p.h...
Monk & Gambler. On American Airlines, the changes will come naturally and inevitably to Cyrus Rowlett Smith, known familiarly in the industry as "C. R.," who has spent 24 years patiently and indefatigably making improvements in his line...
...Liked Her." Nothing goes on along the 14,000 miles of American's routes or among its 21,000 employees that does not interest Smith. He often rides the line alone on weekends, keeping tab on everything. His seamed, jowly face has become a familiar sight to stewardesses, pilots and mechanics, as he samples the food, checks the service, asks questions-all the while jotting notes on pieces of scrap paper. A rough and tough man's man, he often peppers his speech with four-letter words, can shoot out orders like a gunslinger on the loose. Recently...
...financing provided the money to ride out the postwar ups and downs. When the travel boom did arrive, American was in better shape than any other line to meet it. Like any good gambler, Smith decided to cut his losses on American Overseas by selling it to Pan American for $10.7 million. In 1949 American broke through the dark clouds with net earnings of more than $7,000,000. Thus encouraged, C.R. took a squint into the future and decided to expand again. He placed the first order for 25 of Douglas' big, fast DC-7s, which...