Word: lufthansa
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...form of advertising for the airline audience was created by Trans Global Films of New York City. Corporate sponsors pay $35,000 for the production of a one-minute commercial shown on flights over a one-month period. In addition to U.S. carriers, several foreign airlines, including British Airways, Lufthansa and Iberia, will soon screen the ads. Trans Global characterizes its flying commercials as "sponsored entertainment" with news and educational value. World on Parade is institutional advertising, designed not to sell a specific product (Who after all needs an F-14?) but to enhance a corporate image...
Among Hill's revelations-which included solid leads in a $5.85 million heist from a Lufthansa terminal at New York's Kennedy International Airport in 1978-were charges that almost as a sideline, he had rigged the outcome of Boston College games. According to Hill, he became involved in the scam when a former penitentiary pal introduced him to a friend of a Boston College reserve forward, Rick Kuhn. Kuhn allegedly enlisted the services of Sweeney, an honors graduate who proved to be a sharp negotiator, Hill asserted, indicating games that could easily be rigged and bargaining...
...servicemen were murdered by I.R.A. gunmen. One reason for the S.A.S.'s success has been its fearsome psychological impact on terrorists in South Armagh. So great is the S.A.S. reputation that European governments have often called upon its antiterrorist squads for help. During the 1977 hijacking of a Lufthansa 707 to Mogadishu, for example, the S.A.S. sent two men to advise West German commandos in their successful storming of the aircraft...
October 1977: Four terrorists hijacked a Lufthansa jet with 86 aboard after takeoff from Majorca, demanding ransom money and the release of leaders of the Baader-Meinhof gang from West German prisons. The terrorists made several refueling stops and finally landed at Mogadishu, Somalia, where West German commandos stormed the plane and rescued the hostages; three terrorists were killed...
...They got the mother lode in this one." The heist ranks with the Lufthansa robbery in 1978 at New York City's Kennedy Airport, in which thieves stole $5.8 million worth of currency and jewelry being handled by the airline. By contrast, the famed 1950 Brinks robbery in Boston netted about $2.8 million...