Word: lufthansa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drab industrial city of Essen last week, 18 young French labor leaders were learning at firsthand how labor-management relations are handled in the coal fields and steelworks of the Ruhr. In Paris four European airlines-Air France, Alitalia, Belgium's Sabena and West Germany's Lufthansa-announced plans to integrate their schedules, maintenance and foreign-sales organizations under the name "Air Union." And in a West German poll, only 37% of the citizens questioned by the Gallup-like "EMNID" Institute were anxious to see Germany remain a sovereign state; the solid majority (52%) favored membership...
...airmen complain that the U.S. is badly out-traded whenever a new route agreement comes up for negotiation. The airlines point to the 1955 agreement with West Germany's reborn Lufthansa, under which the Germans got rich routes to half a dozen cities up and down both U.S. coasts in return for landing and pickup rights at six German cities. They argue that The Netherlands' KLM Royal Dutch Airlines won new routes last April which will give the Dutch $15 of revenue for every $1 the U.S. gets in return. The latest: a route across...
Before boarding a Lufthansa Constellation for the flight to the U.S., his second in twelve months. Adenauer told newsmen with deadpan jocularity that his main purpose in visiting Gettysburg was to learn something about farming. In a figurative sense, he was indeed concerned about plowshares-the kind beaten out of swords. Hopeful sounds from the five-nation disarmament talks in London had stirred German fears that the U.S. might make some kind of arms-reduction deal with the Russians without insisting on German reunification as part of the bargain...
...have been opposed both by the Civil Aeronautics Board, which feels that the U.S. is already well serviced, and U.S. airlines, which want no more competition. Domestic lines keep a watchful eye on foreign carriers since the State Department granted lush U.S. air routes to West Germany's Lufthansa (TIME, June 27, 1955). But the Dutch made their campaign an affair of national honor. Last week, faced with rising Dutch feeling, the U.S. State Department decided to please a NATO ally at the risk of angering U.S. airlines. It granted the Dutch two new routes: KLM will...
...bomber, into a commercial air transport. From Moscow last winter he was the first to report on how the Russians were trying to raise their airline standards to qualify for international competition. In 1953 he scored a beat with details of West Germany's plans to revive Lufthansa, the German airline. In 1954. after the fiasco of the British Comet jetliners, he created a sensation in Britain by reporting that BOAC had contracted to buy U.S. Douglas DC-7s instead of British aircraft. Early in World War II it was Parrish who learned that a shortage...