Word: pistons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Music Department is particularly fortunate in having Thompson and Walter H. Piston, Jr. '24 the former on both undergraduate and grad
...commercial aviation industry last week, the ceiling looked unlimited. Pan American World Airways announced a $110 million order with Douglas Aircraft for 40 of its speedy (365 m.p.h.) piston-engined DC-7s, the biggest order ever placed by an airline with a single manufacturer. Two days later, Northwest Airlines ordered another 14 Douglas planes costing $28 million. Together, the two boosted Douglas' backlog to 156 planes, worth more than $500 million, the highest figure in its history. At rival Lockheed, orders were on hand for $225 million worth of Constellations...
...Douglas and Lockheed orders meant that U.S. airlines have decided to hold off on jet transports, probably until 1960. It will take at least five, possibly seven, years for them to amortize their costly new fleets of piston-engined craft, some of which will not even be delivered until 1957. Furthermore, there is little likelihood that a U.S. jet transport will be on the market for some time to come. In Washington last week, Air Force Assistant Secretary Roger Lewis told Boeing Airplane Co., which had hoped to turn out a commercial version of its giant KC-135 jet tanker...
...deal with Lockheed for 1957 delivery of 25 new 1449-model Constellations fitted with four 5,500-h.p. Pratt & Whitney T34 turboprop engines. New plane is designed to carry up to 99 passengers, cruise nonstop across the U.S. at more than 425 m.p.h., about 60 m.p.h. faster than current piston-engined...
...Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation for permission to buy 19 U.S.-built Douglas DC-7C airliners for its transoceanic routes. BOAC and its Chairman Sir Miles Thomas, who once placed their bets on the ill-fated Comet jet transports, now want a modified version of the piston-engined DC-7 of U.S. airlines, enlarged to carry 68 passengers nonstop across the Atlantic. Cost: $42.7 million...