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Cunard's basic trouble is competition in the air. From a peak of 1,000,000 passengers who traveled by sea across the Atlantic in 1957, the total dropped to 650,000 last year. In the same period, the number of passengers traveling by air across the Atlantic rose from 1,000,000 to 4,000,000 annually. Sir Basil is determined not to let Cunard founder. His philosophy is: "If we go on regarding ourselves as primarily transport operators, then there isn't any future for us, because the airlines have captured the pure transport market...
...cost of money-the most influential cost in the U.S. economy-soared last week to a peak not seen since...
With that bad news, Douglas' difficulties increased. In seven trading days, Douglas common stock sank 25¾ points to close last week at a 1966 low of 61¾, or 50⅛ points below its 111⅞ peak in February. Many stock prices have skidded since then in the wobbly market, but the Douglas drop is the sharpest in the $22 billion aerospace industry, inflicting a $263 million paper loss on investors...
Because of their varying speeds, the compounds that constitute the metabolic products are segregated. As each compound emerges-in order of its speed through the column-it is sensed by an ionization detector and recorded on a graph as a distinct peak. Within minutes, all of the compounds have passed through the chromatograph, each forming its own peak on the graph. Since the metabolic products of each strain of bacteria contain different chem ical compounds, each chromatogram forms an easily identifiable profile...
...loads and greater utilization of planes, the profits on military flights are not much lower than on civilian ones. Biggest military-airlift supplier is Pan Am, which already has 16 of its 100 jets on Viet Nam duty under a $44 million contract. Pan Am has cut its summer-peak transatlantic schedule from 288 to 266 flights a week...