Word: airings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...century, we literally busted out all over. There were no guidelines for development, there was desecration of the earth and abuse of raw materials. Nobody wants to go back to that. But we have to decide what we want. If we want open spaces, fresh water and clean air, we should be willing to sacrifice the concentration of industry. When you put ten massive industries side by side on one river, even if you scientifically eliminate the pollution problem, you still have the environmental problem of unsightliness...
...like to sit out on the porch when there's a breeze. But there's not a breath of air moving. The air's so heavy...
...investments," says Bache & Co. Analyst Henry Siegel. Now the airline stocks are no longer the high and the mighty. They are among the leaders in the market's decline, down as a group by 37% since the beginning of the year. The drop is accelerating: the index of air stocks fell by a startling 11% in five trading days two weeks ago and again by 6% last week. TWA, Pan American and Western Airlines skipped their second-quarter dividends because of sharply reduced earnings...
Costly Steaks. The industry makes no attempt to gloss over the serious de terioration of its finances. To get at least temporary relief, it is negotiating in Washington for the second fare in crease this year. Air travel has traditionally reflected the ups and downs of the U.S. economy, since, as one air line executive puts it, "vacation dollars are expendable dollars." Inflation and the incipient economic slowdown have cut into travel for both business and pleasure. In the first six months of 1969, passenger travel rose 11% from the 1968 level, 4% less than anticipated. During June...
...proposal meant victory for critics of the cigarette, notably the Federal Communications Commission, which earlier this year threatened to order all cigarette commercials off the air waves. Both the FCC and the Federal Trade Commission promised to drop their proposals for stern regulatory action if the industry could make its plan work. Utah Democrat Frank Moss, the nonsmoking Mormon who heads the consumer subcommittee and is the leading tobacco opponent in the Senate, said happily that "the dike has been broken...