Word: pans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...falls screaming on his mother's doorstep. Having spent seven years as an infantryman with the German army, Author Böll writes knowingly and well of the stench and strain of war. But whenever the underlying self-pity shows through the chinks in his dead-pan mask, he seems bent not only on living the war again but also on losing it again...
...financing his new jet fleet, United's Patterson, like Pan American's President Juan Trippe, kept mum. He said only that he was "studying several alternatives and, quite frankly, we don't yet know which one we'll choose." The speculation around the industry is that insurance companies will help the airlines foot the bill. With United's operating revenues at an alltime record and other airlines doing equally well, commercial aviation is in a position to carry the heavy capital debt for new jets. In a pinch, U.S. airlines could even make a strong...
...discussions, a happy Douglas executive delivered a powerful nine-word sales talk: "Gentlemen, United Air Lines has just purchased 30 DC-8s." The huge, $175 million order was the first by any domestic airline, and its meaning was clear: with orders in hand for 25 planes from Pan American (TIME, Oct. 24) and 30 from United, Douglas was well ahead of rival Boeing Aircraft in the commercial-jet race...
...order, United's President William A. Patterson sewed up first place in the delivery line over his domestic competitors. He is scheduled to get his first DC-8 in May, 1959, have it in service that November. Thus, United should have DC-8s in the air even before Pan American, which will have to wait until December 1959 for its first plane. The delay is caused by the engines. United's jet liners will have Pratt & Whitney J57 engines (more than 10,000 Ibs. thrust), already in military production. Pan American's planes, which need a bigger...
...case, Pan Am's move into jets will be a big factor in establishing U.S. commercial supremacy in jet transports. The only competitor has been Great Britain. But Britain's jet development has been so set back by the Comet's three crashes that cost 99 lives that even British Overseas Airways Corp. now may be forced to buy 707s or DC-8s to meet its competition across the Atlantic...