Word: airing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although Coors beer is sold almost exclusively in 14 Western states, it is the nation's fifth bestselling beer and has become something of a status symbol in the East. Presidents Eisenhower and Ford used to bring cases of Coors back to Washington aboard Air Force jets after transcontinental trips. Actor Paul Newman always drank Coors on movie sets when it was available...
...leaving a gash 45 ft. deep and 180 ft. long just above the waterline. Both vessels burst into flames. In the Venoil, the fire was luckily confined to the ship's fuel tanks and kept away from its flammable cargo. Even so, flames shot 200 ft. into the air, and the billowing smoke was visible for 15 miles...
Because it nets less than three cents on every sales dollar, Chrysler needed to build up its cash position, partly to finance refitting of the Belvidere, Ill., plant, where the new cars will be assembled. In 1976 the company sold its Air-temp air-conditioning division to Fedders for $47 million; the sale has now become the subject of lawsuits. Last month the real estate division sold several shopping centers, a hotel and some office buildings for $50 million...
Scientists generally agree on the basic cause of lightning: the buildup of enough voltage, or electrical potential, between clouds and earth (or be tween different clouds) to overcome the resistance of the insulating layer of air between them. The buildup occurs when electrons, perhaps carried by falling water droplets, migrate to the bottom of a cloud, giving it a strong negative charge. Because like charges repel, that negative charge drives away electrons in the ground below, leaving it with an excess positive charge. Eventually, the voltage between cloud and ground becomes so great that electrons burst across the insulating air...
What triggers the bolt, says Follin, are particles in the secondary cosmic showers called muons, which increase the charge with fresh electron avalanches. Finally, electrons burst from the cloud along a path of ionized (electrically charged) air. As other muons intercept the path at different angles, forming new trails, the electrons follow a jagged, steplike route to the ground...