Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...generally unexciting program at Symphony Hall this week: well-travelled Walter Piston's 5th Symphony; Mozart's "Paris" Symphony, Schumann's 4th Symphony, and part of a Beethoven Quartet played by the strings. Today at 8:30 p.m. Michael Rabin, violinist, will make his Boston debut tomorrow at 3:30 p.m., in Symphony Hall. His program includes Bruch's Scottish Fantasy, Prokofiev's Sonata, and Briten's Waltz...
French-born Conductor Charles Munch, his thick, white hair flying in the musical breeze, led his crew through Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, Walter Piston's Sixth, and, in a specialty that every Munchian audience outside Russia has heard and heard again, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2. At the end, the crowd let loose an eight-minute tumult, only stopped temporarily when the orchestra went into a rare encore-Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice. Said a leading Russian fiddler: "It's the greatest orchestra in the world...
...biggest star was Rolls-Royce, whose plane engines bear the same mark of quality as its princely autos. The most successful private enginemaker in Europe, Rolls developed the famed Merlin piston engine for the R.A.F.'s scrappy Spitfire and Hurricane fighters, got out ahead in jets when it took over development of Sir Frank Whittle's first workable jet. The company was one of the first in turboprops with its Dart engine (1,780 h.p.), which is a main reason for Vickers' spectacular success (total sales: 353 planes) with its Viscount airliner (TIME...
...turned out, 44-passenger, 335-m.p.h. Viscounts were a hit from the start. With big picture windows, less noise and vibration than piston-engined planes, the Viscounts operated up to 85% of full load for the first few months, have averaged 70% in their first full year v. an average 64% load factor for the rest of the industry. Replacing Lockheed Constellations with Viscounts on the Chicago-Washington run, Capital tripled its business, carried 33,802 passengers from February through May 1956 v. 11,322 passengers during the same period of 1955. Traffic on the New York-Pittsburgh...
Figuring all costs, says President Carmichael, Capital's Viscounts had a break-even load factor of 56.8%, almost 10% better than its piston-engined Constellations. Total operating costs are $1.57 per mile v. $2.16 for the Connies. But the initial costs of getting the new Viscounts into service actually cost Capital a $1,300,000 deficit in 1956's first quarter, will probably hold down profits this year, even though operating revenues were up to $11.9 million for an overall 13% jump over...