Word: airing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Looking for Loopholes. Despite his "speaks for itself" record and all the attacks it has stirred up against him, Jimmy Hoffa is still cockily confident, brimful of big plans for the future, including an alliance of all land, water and air transport unions...
From his sleeping bag Phillip Bennett, 16, looked up and saw the top of the mountain "cascading down on us." As his parents tumbled from the trailer, a great wind rushed through the canyon, lifting the children, sleeping bags and all, into the air. Irene Bennett saw her husband grab one of the children, hold on to a sapling with his other hand and straighten "like a flag on a flagpole." Then, as he let go, the mountain crashed down around them in an avalanche of rocks, shattered trees and earth. Next day only Irene Bennett and Phillip were found...
Forest rangers, highway patrolmen, Air Force and Yellowstone Park rescuers who poured into the area were appalled by what they found. Near where the Bennetts' camp had been, a huge slide of more than 7,500,000 tons of rock from the side of a 7,600-ft.-mountain had fallen into the canyon, sealing it from wall to wall for three-quarters of a mile and damming the Madison into a natural lake. Between the slide and Hebgen Dam, 260 other campers and fishermen were trapped in the Madison's canyon, dazed and shaken by a night...
...makes hu . . . humidity?" asks a little girl in a current subway advertisement. "Mother Nature," answers the advertiser, New York City's Consolidated Edison electric power company, "... heat, too! And when she combines them for any long stretch-whew! Many thousands of air conditioners run almost constantly, keeping Con Edison electric plants humming. This summer New Yorkers broke all records for the amount of electricity used in a single hour. But it's our job to anticipate your needs...
...took on dramatic meaning last week when seven big power feeder lines, strained beyond capacity by the extra demands of air conditioners and electric fans during one of New York's worst heat waves, cut off, blacking out a five-square-mile slice of Manhattan with a population of 500,000. At about 3 p.m., the blackout shadows fell impartially across every social stratum in the nation's most complex city: millionaires in air-cooled Park Avenue apartments sweated in the unaccustomed heat, while across Central Park, Puerto Rican kids swarmed from the tenements and splashed happily...