Word: aires
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...boards. What seemed surprising was that a deal of last week's size came from a state-controlled carrier whose home country is smaller than New York City, with a population (2.3 million) smaller than Colorado's. Yet Singapore Airlines is based astride key crossroads of Asian air travel, and last year it carried 2.5 million passengers on highly profitable routes serving 30 cities in 25 countries; flights to San Francisco and Honolulu begin next year. Earnings for the fiscal year just ended are estimated to be $25 million on revenues that have risen more than eightfold since...
...gets a lift from its high level of repeat travelers. British travel agents voted SIA "airline of the year" in 1977, and a survey of 500 agents in the Asian-Pacific region placed it first in the area. The line does not belong to the International Air Transport Association cartel, so it can give all sorts of free extras to passengers. In both first class and economy, they get free champagne and drinks even before takeoff; gifts like pens or complete leather toilet sets are distributed on every flight to first-class passengers. SIA is spending $30 million to build...
...doubt the U.S.'s Eximbank will make loans to SIA, and that may cause a touch of embarrassment for both Boeing and United Technologies, the parent of Pratt & Whitney. Only last month executives of both companies blasted Eastern Air Lines' $778 million purchase of 19 European-made A300 Airbuses, charging that the deals had been "unfairly subsidized" by the German, French and Spanish governments. Boeing never had strong grounds for complaint anyway-it accounts for more than half of all commercial plane sales in the non-Communist world. To keep up with traffic growth and meet noise...
Lieut. General James Doolittle, who led the U.S. air strike against Tokyo in 1942: "Our society has gone to the team effort. It is very difficult today for an individual to stand out the way it was possible in the simpler world of yesterday...
...syndrome: imperfect closure of the valves of the aorta, the large artery that carries blood from the heart. The clue appeared in a picture of the President taken in 1863. Lincoln had his legs crossed, and in an otherwise sharp photo, the left foot-suspended in the air -is blurred. When viewing the print. Lincoln asked why the foot was fuzzy. A friend familiar with physiology suggested that the throbbing arteries in the leg might have caused some movement. Lincoln promptly crossed his legs and watched. "That's it!" he exclaimed. "Now that's very curious...