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...total has since expanded enormously; as of this week 1,712 miles are in use, 1,527 under construction and 5,622 more planned. Total cost: $10.7 billion, repayable by road users directly at no cost to taxpayers generally. By 1965, highway experts predict, motorists will be riding nonstop-for a price-on turnpikes from Chicago to Miami, from the East Coast to Omaha, and from Fort Kent, on Maine's Canadian border, to the edge of Mexico...
...Loser Douglas, it wasted no time taking off on a brand-new plane for long-range runs. Douglas announced that it would build a true-jet 80-to-125 passenger DC-8 transport to fly nonstop across the U.S. in less than five hours, planned to shell out between $40 million and $60 million to get the DC-8 in the air by 1958. Though Douglas has no firm orders for its DC-8, the company is betting that it will be the first U.S. planemaker to put a true-jet transport in airline service. Boeing Airplane Co., which gambled...
...started the first $99 fare coast to coast, expanded its air-coach business so fast that it forced the scheduled lines to start air-coach flights (today 34% of all airline travel is by air coach). North American made enough money to buy two Douglas DC-6Bs for nonstop transcontinental flights, has three more on order, and has been able to chop its coast-to-coast fare to $75 one way. The line can also boast proudly in its ads that it has flown "1 billion passenger-miles without an accident-A perfect safety record." North American, which will keep...
Today, under President Jesus Rubio Paz, who started as a pilot in 1937, Iberia is beginning to expand into the transatlantic market. Last August the line inaugurated its first U.S.-Madrid flight with three nonstop Lockheed Super-Constellations, bought entirely with its own profits. Says President Paz, whose three new Super-Connies are named the Pinta, Niña, and Santa Maria, after Columbus' tiny fleet: "Our crossings will build a sort of aerial bridge, subtle and invisible, on the common ground of friendship...
Flurries & Facts. To carry BOAC into the age of nonstop transatlantic flying, the line had counted on the Comet I's big sister, the Comet III. But its future is still clouded; safety modifications may keep the new jet off commercial routes until 1960. Another hope is the Bristol Britannia, a long-range, 340-m.p.h. transport with four turboprop engines. BOAC has poured $20 million into the project, ordered ten planes. But the Britannia, too, is a question mark. With little transport experience, Bristol is already 14 months behind schedule, will probably not deliver the first plane until...