Word: transoceanic
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...spot ahead: Britain is well in front of the U.S. in the development of jet commercial planes. To catch up, CAB urged Congress at least to help finance the building of jet prototype planes by the U.S. aircraft industry. Failure to do so, warned CAB, might force the U.S. transocean lines "either to buy foreign aircraft or to yield traffic to the foreign carriers...
Died. Frank Baldwin Jewett, 70, who as head of Bell Telephone Laboratories led the development of the dial system and the transocean telephone, helped develop movies with sound, the modern electric phonograph, and the coaxial cable for television; after an operation; in Summit...
...addition, Britain has just finished the big, experimental 60-passenger turboprop, the Handley Page Hermes V, and is completing the giant Saunders-Roe Princess, a lo-engined turbo-prop flying boat designed to carry 105 passengers transocean to South America...
With a cruising range of about 1,200 miles, Avro's Jetliner was planned especially to meet Canadian conditions for fast, economical inter-city air service (it will not compete with the British De Havilland Comet for transocean traffic). An all-Canadian job except for its four Rolls-Royce Derwent V engines, it was designed to carry a load of 50 passengers plus crew of three, and to fly 430 m.p.h...
...scheduled airlines were so jammed for space that the CAB, which had been slapping down unscheduled carriers, let four of them help out. It gave special permits to Seaboard & Western, Transocean, Alaskan and Coastal-all nonscheduled ocean flyers-to haul limited groups of U.S. students and European displaced persons at low summer rates...