Word: airlinese
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Feisal, Saudi Arabia has spent billions of riyals (about four to the dollar) on roads, public health and education, including the first schools for girls. Today more than 100,000 girls are in school, yet women remain last-class citizens in Saudi Arabia. They must wear veils in public...
> Domestic airlines, acting under a Government fuel allocation plan that began on Thursday, eliminated hundreds of flights. The cuts will amount to about 5% of regular departures, enough to keep fuel consumption at 1972 levels, but more reductions may be made if supplies fall still lower.
The U.S. apparently can expect little aid. Canada, the biggest foreign supplier, has slapped a 40?-per-bbl. tax on oil exported to the U.S. as a means of keeping its fuel at home. (Taking advantage of the tight supply situation, Venezuela, the nation's second largest foreign source...
While world attention has been diverted by the war in the Middle East, Austria's door has remained open. Nearly 4,000 Jews have been quietly processed through SchÖnau, where they have remained until leaving for Israel on the El Al Airlines jets that depart Vienna'...
The new chief, Matsutaro Fujii, faces a daunting challenge in trying to restore the line's prosperity and revive the harmony that was once the hallmark of the "national railway family," or kokutetsu ikka. With trucking taking away most of its freight business and airlines slowly chewing into its...