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...How do you become a millionaire, quipped Richard Branson? Start as a billionaire and buy an airline....
...Warren Buffett once joked that a farsighted capitalist should have shot down Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk to save future investors their losses on airlines....
...Especially with recent management changes at Prudential’s M&G fund management division — notably the departure of boss Anne Richards — making demerger unlikely until late next year at best....
...But as it faces parliamentary elections next month, it is also being judged on more prosaic issues — most notably the four toll booths on the E18 motorway that passes by Torp Sandefjord airport....
...Ryanair will start flying to London and Vilnius daily from Oslo’s main Gardermoen airport and move some flights to Torp, an airport 75 minutes south-west of the capital, but 16 routes in all will be cancelled...
...Orville and Wilbur Wright were artisanal builders of flying machines. Today’s aircraft are not built by artisans but by industrial manufacturers led by Airbus and Boeing....
...Sir Richard Branson was at the SALT hedge fund conference in Las Vegas last month showing his son’s documentary, Breaking the Taboo, which makes a case for legalising the entire drug trade....
...“One rarely gets very far with China by direct confrontation,” says Orville Schell, head of the Center on US-China Relations....
...Sir Richard Branson’s plans for commercial space travel are advancing, but are still some way from lift-off....
...“If a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favour by shooting Orville down.”...
...Here, in John Weidman’s book and Richard Maltby Jr’s lyrics, their innovative achievements as aviators reveal their unique temperaments....
...“If you think it is a young technology, that the Orville and Wilbur Wrights of the 21st century are running around in the UAV marketplace, then as messy as it makes the environment, is it far more strategically...
...The set-up is more than enough for the composer, Peter Melnick, a grandson of Richard Rodgers, to show an array of colours....
...Some still believe his campaign was so divisive inside the Democratic party that he contributed to the election of Richard Nixon, the Republican candidate, as president that year....
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