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...Smith said that the strike was a clear breach of contract, and that he would sue for daily damages (about $500,000) if the pilots did not agree to arbitration. Meanwhile, United Air Lines and T.W.A., which have the same eight-hour time-limit trouble on their westbound nonstop flights, were anxiously plugging for a speedy settlement before the strike spread to them...
...first 15 new, long-range Douglas DC-7Cs (about $2,200,000 each), will start putting them in service on all routes in 1956. By adding 5 ft. to each wing, Douglas is boosting fuel capacity 23%, expects that the DC-7C will be able to make a nonstop transatlantic run, in either direction...
...November 1945 Pan American signed for 20 Boeing Stratocruisers - big, 300-m.p.h., four-engined craft that could carry 81 passengers 3,000 miles nonstop...
AIRLINE PILOTS' STRIKE is being threatened over the Civil Aeronautics Board rule increasing maximum flight time in a given day from eight to ten hours so that airlines can make nonstop transcontinental runs in all weather. The Air Line Pilots Association (A.F.L.) has sent out strike ballots to 3,500 pilots (one-third of the airline total) flying for American, United and Trans World Airlines, says that its members are flying the long runs only "under threat of discharge." THREE-WAY MERGER of American Woolen Co., Textron Inc. and Bachmann Uxbridge Worsted Corp...
...NONSTOP FLIGHTS across the continent by American Airlines will be stopped if the Civil Aeronautics Administration has its way. The CAA, in effect, has charged American with violating crew regulations by keeping pilots aloft for more than the eight-hour maximum on better than half its flights (headwinds frequently slow westbound runs to more than nine hours), has petitioned the Civil Aeronautics Board to discontinue the nonstop flights...