Word: havilland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most awesomely popular novel ever written (total sales to date: 10 million copies), G.W.T.W. was produced by David Selznick for a sum ($3,900,000) that seemed tremendous by the production standards of 1939. He employed 13 scriptwriters, eight directors, four major stars (Gable, Howard, Olivia de Havilland, Vivien Leigh). He took six months to shoot the picture, which ran 3 hrs. 45 min., won ten Academy Awards and made $7,000,000 the first year it was released. In the 22 years since 1939, G.W.T.W. has been showing continuously somewhere in the world. It lasted four years in London...
...radical changes. In the heady atmosphere of the arch-creator's Olympus, Vivier has no patience with such mundane complaints. Breathlessly awaiting his new-creations are Queens (England's two Elizabeths, Iran's Farah Diba), near queen (the Duchess of Windsor) and movie queens (Olivia de Havilland, Marlene Dietrich...
...flying all of its routes but also had added a new leg in Tennessee. There upon the striking pilots, backed by $300,000 from ALPA, decided to form their own line as a subsidiary of Valparaiso Aero Service, a charter service in Indiana. They leased five seven-passenger de Havilland Doves. Since Valparaiso already had FAA certification as an air taxi service, Superior did not need a certificate to fly scheduled routes. While the striking pilots do not have the planes to compete with Southern on all routes, they hope to damage Southern by skimming the cream off the busiest...
Dense Air. Among the early loads were dismantled U.S. Army helicopters and a couple of seven-passenger de Havilland Beavers. Assembled in a matter of hours, they were set to work under the command of Lieut. Colonel Jerome B. Feldt of Kansas, flying into the bush to pick up handfuls of isolated missionaries...
...good citizen, obey the laws, but never get mixed up in politics. Never contribute to political campaigns and never pay baksheesh. Never. Never." He does much of his traveling between London and The Hague, where the Group keeps separate headquarters, flies back and forth in a de Havilland Heron from the Group's fleet of 60 planes...