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...nearly $3,000,000 designing, is ready to be built. But Douglas wants a Government order to help foot the bill. The DC-8 is expected to match Boeing's 707 (TIME, July 19) by carrying up to 130 passengers, cruising at 550 m.p.h., flying the Atlantic Ocean nonstop against winter headwinds...
...miles) above sea level, probably reached by Bell's XiA rocket aircraft. An added feather in the Air Force's cap: a B-47 jet bomber, refueled in flight, has set a new jet endurance record, staying aloft for 35 hours, traveling 17,000 miles nonstop...
...strike of some 1,200 American Airlines pilots ended this week. They had been out for three weeks, grounding 385 daily nights and throwing thousands of other American employees out of work. Main issue: American's nonstop coast-to-coast nights, which kept some air crews in the air more than eight hours a day-despite the fact that the schedule had been approved by the Civil Aeronautics Board (TIME, Aug. 9 et seq.). By last week the pilots seemed to be looking for a way out, and federal mediators gave them one. According to the proposal, accepted...
Sweeping Powers. Under the oaks at Marly, Mendès-France rewrote Faure's program to give expression to his own ideas. It took him 48 hours, practically nonstop. As presented to the National Assembly, last week Mendès-France's New Deal consisted of two documents: a one-page legislative bill, asking sweeping powers to run the. French economy by decree until March 31, 1955, accompanied by a 30-page "Exposition of Motives." Main features...
AMERICAN AIRLINES, grounded by the strike of its 1,200 pilots (TIME, Aug. 9), struck back with a $1,250,000 damage suit against the Air Line Pilots Association, A.F.L. Strike may spread to United, but Trans World Airlines sidestepped the battle. It ordered its nonstop transcontinental flights to put down in Chicago to refuel and change pilots, thus avoid the cause of the walkout: exceeding an eight-hour limit on flying time for flight crews...