Word: plane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mostly overcast at 4,500 ft., the winds aloft ranged up to 60 m.p.h., the air craft was a World War II B-25 bomber with rudimentary navigation equipment, and the pilot was Robert Karns, 29, who had never bothered to get a "type rating" for the plane. The jumpers' tar get: Ortner Field itself, only ten miles from Lake Erie...
Bonanza is the strongest of the three. Flying popular routes in California, Nevada, Arizona and Utah, it retired its last piston plane in 1960, has attracted passengers with imaginative fare plans. Last year passenger totals rose 26.8%, to 848,000, and the company earned $530,000 on revenues of $18 million. Much credit goes to Henry who, before going to Pacific last July, had been second-in-command to Founder-Presdent Edmund Converse, 60. Converse will be vice chairman of the merged airline, and Henry its president...
Perilous Pitch. West Coast, operating primarily in the Northwest, earned a handsome $836,000 on revenues of $18 million last year despite a number of low-profit, short-hop routes and a 20-plane fleet burdened by eight aging DC-3s. One of its biggest assets is its president and 30% owner, Nick Bez, 72, long a kingpin of the Democratic Party in Washington State. Bez will be chairman of the new line...
...grander scale. Because steel shipments were slow, he organized Kaiser Steel at Fontana, Calif., with a $123 million Reconstruction Finance Corp. loan that brought considerable criticism from Congress and Wall Street alike. He dabbled in airplanes, and with Howard Hughes conceived the idea of a ten-engine cargo plane that never got off the drafting board. Later he founded Kaiser Aluminum...
...keeps bursting out of her undercover role. Soon she cannot even get on a plane without having a sinister admirer close behind, and even with a program, the viewer has as much trouble as Raquel keeping track of the villains. Is he bleach-boy Anthony Franciosa, who has dyed his hair in an effort to look like James Blond? Or is he Clive Revill, the overstuffed art collector? Are the British agents fakes? Or is the genuine phony really Raquel after...