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...afternoon last week, exactly on schedule, the commercial jet air age began. The dolphin-bodied de Havilland jet liner Comet got the take-off signal, swept down the runway at London Airport, its four turbines whistling a high pitch, and climbed seven miles into the air carrying a full load of 36 passengers, six crewmen and 30 bags of mail. The next day, as thousands watched at Johannesburg's Palmietfontein Airport, the silver and blue BOAC jet streaked down, ending its 6,724-mile trip. Total elapsed time: 23 hours, 38 minutes. This was 8¾ hours faster than...
Holy Cross got its runs in the sixth and ninth innings. In the sixth, Arnold hit Paul Brissette allowed Art Moossman a single, and walked Crusaders' captain, Jack Concannon, to load the bases. A long fly by Frank Matrango, followed by Dick Hogan's single, sent two runs across the plate. Bob Ward replaced Arnold in the seventh, and gave Holy Cross it final run by walking Moossman with the bases loaded in the ninth. HARVARD BOX SCORE ab r h po a o Krinsky, ss 3 0 0 1 1 1 Greeley...
...against Ward's curves, had only catcher Lon Murgo's three-bagger and one scratch hit to boast about going into the ninth. John Valinote opened the inning with a double, and Ward hit the next batter, right fielder Bob McCue. Bob MacCounell was given an intentional pass to load the bases, but the next man up third baseman Bobby Wheeler, hit a bag fly to Benny Akillian in left. Akillian's throw was fast but wide; Valinote scored and the game was over...
...near-capacity load of 64 passengers, most of them Puerto Ricans, filed aboard the Pan American World Airways' DC-4, leaving Puerto Rico on a tourist-rate ($64) flight to New York for Easter. At 11:11 a.m., with a crew of five, the four-engine airliner took off from San Juan's Isla Grande Airport. Minutes later, the pilot reported engine trouble. At 11:22, the crippled plane, unable to reach the airport again, crashed into the sea. Battered by ten-foot waves, it broke up and sank in two minutes...
...Planes. Their teamwork got results. When Straight began his pruning, BOAC had an incredible break-even "load factor" of 115%, would have been losing money even if every seat on every flight was filled. Gradually, Straight and Sir Miles got this down to its present 65%. Profits began to roll in even before Britain boosted airmail rates last August...