Word: optionable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first deal to buy U.S. commercial jets. Total price: $269 million, the biggest in airline history. The deal is certain to be followed by plane purchase orders from other carriers. National Airlines is expected to sign for six DC-8s on which it took a verbal option last August. Other shoppers include United, American, Eastern, Air France, KLM and Panagra...
...children, however, differ from what our Southern group suspects. When the St. Louis Board of Education ruled, in compliance with the Supreme Court's decision, that the city's elementary schools would integrate this September, it had to construct completely new school districts. But it gave all children the option of continuing in their old schools in spite of the new districts. Before this fall's integration, the white children in the Field neighborhood had all gone to the segregated Clark school. Most of them, naturally, wanted to continue there, not because Clark now has a smaller proportion of colored...
...will pass out of family hands and into the W.R. Grace shipping empire. Andrew J. Higgins' four sons, who pulled the company out of its postwar slump by diversifying into pleasure boats and offshore oil drilling equipment, have given Grace and a New Orleans syndicate a long-term option, but are keeping mum on the price...
...dilemma still faces the 15 who were not in the service. They have the option of finishing their education or of enlisting by June. If they enlist they will probably enter as Airmen and then be commissioned during their two years' service, probably serving the last six months as officers...
...first planes will be delivered in August 1958, and the entire fleet will be in service by July 1959. If Eastern exercises its option, the remaining 30 planes will be in service by November...