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...personally breaking the sound barrier. Unlike the Boeing 707 and 747, which lumber into slowly gathering momentum, the Concorde has a sprinter's start. I was pushed gently but firmly into my backrest. From the rear of the plane I could see the nose leave the ground, tilting upward and upward until the fuselage looked like a tipping tunnel of love. From the inside, the noise was no louder than that of a normal jet. We were off the ground in seconds and climbing at a sharp angle...
...built up a reservoir of ill feeling in the industry because many rivals believe that it has often used abrasive competitive tactics. It has a reputation for "buying in" on Government projects, bidding unrealistically low on the assumption that once the contract was landed, the costs could be renegotiated upward. On Lockheed's C-5A military transport alone, the Government has laid out an extra $1.3 billion to pay for "cost overruns." Still, Lockheed last year managed to lose money on the C-5A and three other major military contracts...
...four countries was to use upward currency movement to get rid of excess dollars, which were aggravating problems of domestic inflation...
...Reichsbank, a post he lost in 1939 for opposing the Führer's rearmament policies as inflationary. As Bundesbank president from 1958 to 1969, he fought tenaciously for the stability of the mark during his country's 1966-67 recession and carried out a 9% upward revaluation of the mark...
...needs protection against the big, rich, "mature" competitors of North America and Europe, but that argument clearly is not valid today. Japanese manufacturers also have an unnatural price advantage in world competition because their currency, the yen, is undervalued. Tokyo economists reluctantly concede that the yen must be revalued upward; there is likely to be a 5% revaluation within a year...