Word: 747s
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...creator of the 747, Trippe gave us the world's traveling machine. I launched Virgin Atlantic in June 1984 with 747s at the point when it was really shrinking the world and air travel was truly democratized, as Trippe intended...
Trippe bought too many 747s in the early 1970s. A world oil crisis hit airline travel hard, and his business never recovered. Boeing itself almost went belly-up because of the cost of launching...
...letter to Scarry dated April 21st, NTSB Chair Jim Hall called the article "quite interesting," and said thatpresently "the [NTSB] investigative team isworking with private concentrators and themilitary to determine the effects of EMI and [HighIntensity Radiation Fields] on Boeing 747s...
WASHINGTON: Can anybody rewire this plane? With all the calm panic-prevention skills of an airline stewardess, the National Transportation Safety Board recommended Tuesday the rewiring of fuel tanks in more than 750 Boeing 747 jets. ?Unsafe conditions... may exist in other older B-747s and should be addressed by the Federal Aviation Administration,? wrote NTSB chief Jim Hall Tuesday...
...personal billions--$25 billion at last count--by buying and holding undervalued stocks. But silver doesn't even pay a dividend and, worse, costs money to store. So why on earth did Buffett use Berkshire to acquire 4,000 tons of silver--a cache weighing more than 10 Boeing 747s--at a cost of $650 million between July 25 and Jan. 12? Until then, Buffett hadn't owned an ounce in 30 years...