Word: lufthansa
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...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...
When the time came for him to fly back to the political roughhousing in Bonn (the Lufthansa Constellation made the trip nonstop from Milwaukee in 13 hours 41 minutes), he got an unforgettable farewell. As his motorcade rolled out to Milwaukee's General Mitchell Field, waiting motorists blasted and blared their horns, while crowds swarmed out of shops and offices and homes to shout and wave goodbye...
POLAR AIR ROUTES are in prospect for T.W.A. and Pan American. With Scandinavian Airlines already making polar runs and Lufthansa and BOAC slated to start soon, CAB will probably certify two U.S. lines in late summer...
WESTERN AIR LINES is taking its first step into the jet age. It will buy nine 410-m.p.h. Lockheed Electra propjet transports (cost: $19.5 million), put them into service in 1959-60. Another jet order: from West Germany's Lufthansa, which is joining the transatlantic jet race by spending about $20 million for four pure-jet Boeing 707s...
...LUFTHANSA, the West German airline reborn less than a year ago, is growing up fast. This spring Lufthansa will expand its 66 intercontinental flights weekly to 488, double schedules to England, France and Spain, switch from five-weekly to daily New York service, add Rio and Buenos Aires to its routes...