Word: senger
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agent of trouble was that symbol of technology, the jet engine. In 1968 Rolls-Royce won an international competition to build the engines for the Lockheed L-1011 airbus, a 256-pas-senger trijet that is supposed to start flying for TWA and Eastern late this fall. Britons had hailed the contract award as a triumph of export salesmanship by Rolls, but it proved instead to be ruinous. Rolls agreed to deliver 540 engines for the "TriStar" at a fixed price of $156 million; by last November it had concluded that the cost of building them would be more than...