Word: sold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than it is to $300,000." Apart from his $50,000 annual pension from the Teamsters, Beck's income depends on a flourishing real estate business, which he conducts from the basement of the big, rambling Seattle home that he built with Teamster funds (later returned) and sold to the Teamsters Union for $163,000 ("I get by fine and dandy there...
...Royal Hawaiian Hotel there were leis, typewriters, notebooks, cartons of cigarettes and monogrammed matches in each reporter's $2;-a-day room. Everyone also got an hour's interview with Adventure's official author, James (South Pacific) Michener, and a chance to learn that all Michener sold the network were outlines and a few short stories from which other writers would work out segments of Adventure...
...first-class plane-and enginemakers. Now there are 30. Companies are dropping out because the industry's capacity is far higher than the demand for planes. There are so few orders that major planemakers are building for stock-putting together planes and praying that they will be sold one day. A buyer can get delivery of a turboprop Viscount or Britannia in two to three months, v. twelve months for a U.S. Lockheed Electra...
Vickers, whose turboprop Viscount was the great postwar success story of British civil aviation, has sold more than 400 of them. But it expects to end the Viscount run in 1960. The Viscount's successor, the Vanguard, which was first shown off last week, has a bare 40 orders from British European Airways and Trans-Canada Air Lines, far fewer than needed to break even. Bristol, whose turboprop Britannia was slowed by bugs, has sold only...
...long-range, pure-jet market, Britain washed out. De Havilland, still suffering from its fatal Comet crashes, has sold only 36 commercial Comets, all but ten to British lines. Foreign lines have shown a marked preference for the bigger, faster U.S. jets. As for military sales, Britain has practically abandoned planes, and missile orders are comparatively small, since the U.S. has supplied Britain with many such weapons. English Electric's hot (Mach 2) P.1 Lightning all-weather night fighter, now abuilding, will not only be the Royal Air Force's first truly supersonic fighter, but very likely...