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...TANKER PROGRAMS will be kicked off by Royal Dutch-Shell and Esso Petroleum, but U.S. shipbuilders will not share in any of the orders. Oil companies will spend up to $230 million on 40 new tankers (34 for Shell, six for Esso), ranging from 18,000 tons to 36,000 tons, for delivery by 1960. The British will build 22, the Dutch 14, the Germans four...
BOEING JET TRANSPORT will soon be in production for U.S. airlines. With an Air Force green light to build the airliner alongside its jet tanker, Boeing is dickering with both Pan American (for 25 planes) and United Air Lines (for 20 planes), expects to deliver the first jet by late 1958 at a price somewhere between...
...company is betting that it will be the first U.S. planemaker to put a true-jet transport in airline service. Boeing Airplane Co., which gambled $20 million on its four-jet 707 transport last year, now has so many military orders for a bigger aerial tanker (the KC-135) version that the Air Force has asked the company to concentrate on defense production, forget about a commercial jet liner for the time being...
...week's end, Washington buzzed with reports of a speedup in production of Boeing's four-jet KC-135 tanker and a pair of new supersonic fighters, McDonnell's F101 and Lockheed's 1,000-m.p.h. F-104, still in the test-flying stage. For the B-52 program alone, the acceleration would probably increase the Air Force budget for fiscal 1955-56 somewhere between $300 and $400 million...
...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 by 1958, that the Air Force wants Boeing to concentrate on military planes until all defense commitments are filled...