Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ceremonies began with an uncommonly festive air. In the spacious Hall of the Frescoes in Rome's Palazzo Chigi, Giulio Andreotti, newly installed as Premier of his fourth government, was swearing in 46 new Cabinet Under Secretaries. After that, he would go to the adjoining Chamber of Deputies to present his new government and initiate the vote of confidence that for the first time in three decades would bring Italy's Communist Party into the parliamentary majority. Just as the oaths were being completed, an official raced up with a message. Andreotti's face froze. The news...
...lease agreements with landowners in a 16-county area. Collectively the wells produce about 600 million cu. ft. of gas annually, enough to supply more than 5,000 homes for a year. Other companies can draw on gas from wells drilled on their plant sites. Among them are Westinghouse Air Brake, Koppers Co., Edgewater Steel, Union Switch & Signal and Pittsburgh Forgings. As energy prices rise, the scramble for wells intensifies. One real estate developer, Town Development, Inc., has applied to put down wells on the city limits of Pittsburgh to supply fuel to a motel and office-building complex...
...quite an aerial replay of the Battle of Yorktown, but the U.S. did win a significant victory over Britain last week. Since mid-February, the two countries had been deadlocked in a tense and sometimes bitter confrontation over transatlantic air fares: Washington wanted them cut. London said no. But faced with the threat that the U.S. would start restricting British flights to the rich American market, the U.K. gave in. It will now allow U.S. airlines, and presumably its own. to fly passengers between London and 14 American cities-including Atlanta, Chicago. Dallas and Seattle-at budget and stand...
...giving Braniff the Dallas-London route (he wanted it to go to Pan Am), he moved quickly to defend the Texas-based airline. In a plea to the White House. Kahn denounced Britain's action as a "fundamental and flagrant breach" of the Bermuda II pact, which governs air travel between the two countries. He urged Carter to retaliate by suspending British Caledonian's flights between London and Houston, that airline's only service...
...changes were involved, and the Navy simply refused to comment. But a General Dynamics official at the Groton yards offers some free-form insight. Says he: "If you design a space to hold three bunks, and then you want four, you got trouble because each bunk has its own air conditioning and lighting. See what I mean...