Word: transport
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inaugurate a Golden Marquee movie service with small TV screens, and Pan American World Airways, Eastern Air Lines and several other lines are studying plans for providing their passengers with escapo-vision too. So swiftly has entertainment taken hold in the airline industry that delegates to the International Air Transport Association, meeting in Athens last week, spent much of their time debating how to deal with...
...Plane. On Nov. 1, Boeing will submit its revised proposals for a variable-sweep wing supersonic transport to the Federal Aviation Agency, which earlier gave Boeing's design a slight edge over Lockheed's. The company is making a strong bid to build the CX-HLS, a huge, heavy transport that is capable of putting down on unpaved strips in battle zones. Its commercial jetliners-the popular 707, the intermediate-range 720 and the new 727 tri-jet-are selling so well that the company expects to break its alltime commercial sales record of 139 jets...
Even so, a number of shipowners, including New York-based Marine Transport Lines, were interested enough to have begun serious negotiations. Niarchos bided his time at his St. Moritz chalet after a rousing hunting trip in the forests of Austria...
...Bogota, at the annual meeting of the 93-member International Air Transport Association-which the normally secretive outfit opened to the press for the first time in 20 years-airmen sounded sorry that they had ever heard of the SST. They fretted about sonic booms, expressed reluctance to give up the highly profitable jets that they now operate, and worried about the shattering effect that they fear supersonics will have on their balance sheets. "At $40 million," said Air India's Chairman J.R.D. Tata, "we would be paying five times as much for an aircraft doing only 21 times...
...Scandinavian Airlines System, jointly owned by Denmark, Sweden and Norway, is a rare example of several countries cooperating in a single transport commercial enterprise. Before long, the world may have another example. Exploratory talks are now being held among representatives of Pakistan, Turkey and Iran about the possibility of establishing a joint three-nation air system similar to SAS. A final decision will be made within a year, and the decision is expected...