Word: cabinent
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Ever wonder how commercial airlines keep the air in the passenger cabin fresh and circulating? They wouldn't just recycle the air, would they? Well, it looks like a lot of them do. An intrepid study in the August issue of Consumer Reports -- 40 volunteers used hand-held instruments to measure air quality on 158 flights by 20 airlines -- found that almost a quarter of commercial flights don't meet a basic standard for air freshness. The problem, airline employee unions and researchers say, is that newer-model planes recycle as much as half of their ventilation air, instead...
...flew at usually 25 or 26 thousand feet,"Benton says. "We had no heat inside the cabin. Wewore heated suits, because it was 55 degrees belowzero...
...production of American Recordings was high-concept and low-tech. The taping was done in Cash's cabin in Tennessee and the living room of Rubin's house in Los Angeles. "We recorded more than 70 songs in nine months, maybe closer to 100," says Cash. "Just everything I knew. I got into areas of music that ((Rubin)) wasn't familiar with, like country gospel, black gospel, country blues, Appalachian mountain music." In the end, just 13 of the songs were selected for the finished album...
...many as a richly deserved rebuke to an airline whose 3,000 planes and 600,000 employees once freighted more passengers more miles in greater discomfort than any other carrier in the world. During the past three years, however, the stock-in-trade tales of Aeroflot's imperious cabin crews, wretched meals and white-knuckle landings that once left travelers laughing nervously in the aisles have turned decidedly unfunny...
...reverie was interrupted by the pilot'svoice floating over the cabin, offering us "uneopen bar" to ease our anxieties. One morepiece of luck, we were in a bomb threat in Canada...