Search Details

Word: balloonfuls (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...acquired $70,000 family home in fashionable Cedarhurst, Long Island, turns out to be right under the most popular jet approach alley to J.F.K. Airport; the planes banshee by at 600 ft. so often that your 21-year-old daughter is driven autistic. Solution: float a war-surplus barrage balloon 1,500 ft. above the house and let the jets squall where they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: When the Ears Have Had It | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...Force vs. Balloon...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: UFO Specialist Calls Saucer 'Racket' Dead | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

Afterwards, researchers discovered that the UFO had been a Navy weather balloon which had not been announced to the Air Force tracking station...

Author: By Garrett Epps, | Title: UFO Specialist Calls Saucer 'Racket' Dead | 10/20/1970 | See Source »

Changing Roles. As wage costs balloon, a growing list of companies in Western Europe and Japan are seeking similar savings-sometimes next door, sometimes at the other end of the world. Sweden's Saab has just completed a plant in Uusikaupunkt, an undeveloped area of Finland, to roll out 15,000 cars a year, about one-third of which will be sent back to Sweden; the Finnish workers get about half the pay that Saab's Swedish employees do. West Germany's Daimler-Benz has invested $6.6 million in a Yugoslav truck and bus plant and supplies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Global Scramble for Cheap Labor | 9/21/1970 | See Source »

...editors and publishers. The U.S. suggestion drew immediate and harsh criticism from Arab and Israeli diplomats alike. Administration officials hastily emphasized that it was nothing but speculation and that the Russians had not even been consulted about the idea. Nonetheless, some diplomats interpreted the suggestion as an American trial balloon for an imposed settlement in the event that the present cease-fire erupts into a new round of fighting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Middle East: Persuasion Amid Peril | 9/7/1970 | See Source »

Previous | 30 | 31 | 32 | 33 | 34 | 35 | 36 | 37 | 38 | 39 | 40 | 41 | 42 | 43 | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | Next