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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...proposals secret, but enough has already leaked out to produce some reasonably accurate ideas about designs for the SST, as the supersonic is known in aviation. The most salient point about the U.S. SSTs is their unexpected size. All three planemakers proposed SSTs measuring about 210 ft. in length (v. 153 ft. for the longest Boeing 707 and 180 ft. for the Anglo-French Concorde supersonic). The big planes are designed to carry 150 to 210 passengers, depending on seating arrangements, and attain a speed of Mach 3 (three times the speed of sound) v. a Mach 2.2 top speed...
...hardly hope to get its SST into commercial service before 1972, two years later than the rival Concorde. But the world's airlines are so confident that the U.S. will produce a superior plane that they have already placed 70 orders for whatever plane is finally built v. only 49 orders for the Concorde...
...when he was summoned to New York in 1955 on the strength of his sales-manual writing ability. In 1959, he was jumped over senior executives to general manager, told to hold costs while American moved into jets. Sadler is holding American's expenses to a 1% increase, v. an industry average of 3.5% , by pushing sales and by automating ground operations, revising flight schedules and working out economical maintenance. Sadler on weekends inspects American installations around the U.S. and, when he can, follows a Southerner's fancy for pheasant shooting and a scholar's interest...
...story CBS skyscraper in Manhattan to Los Angeles' new Gateway East building. The chief beneficiaries are the two main manufacturers, Sweden's A. B. Lindenkranar and West Germany's Liebherr. The cranes range in price from $35,000 to $60,000, depending on lifting capacity, v. about $90,000 for the crawler crane...
...John V. Lintner, Jr., professor of Business Administration, said Wednesday that the Administration's estimate of a $623 billion gross national product for the fiscal year 1964 is probably quite accurate, assuming that the proposed tax cut is enacted. He said that he had arrived at a similar figure as early as last October...