Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...years they have been able to pinpoint a "probable cause" in 97% of all U.S. air accidents. Yet even these legendary investigators remained in doubt about the precise cause of the worst U.S. air tragedy in history-the crash of an American Airlines DC-10 jumbo jet near Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on Memorial Day weekend that killed 275. While the experts hunted for both a cause and a cure, 138 DC-10s in the U.S. and 132 more around the world were grounded. As the airlines using DC-10s lost an estimated $5 million...
...will McDonnell Douglas Corp., the nation's largest defense contractor with 1978 sales of $4.13 billion, weather the troubles afflicting its DC-10? Investors are taking a gloomy view. Since the Chicago disaster, the company's stock has dropped from...
...McDonnell Douglas will need every bit of its strength to remain healthy in face of the consequences of the Chicago crash. Its potential liabilities...
...editors' self-consciousness about their status is considerable and is having some curious effects. One is the way the Chicago Sun-Times lost a Pulitzer Prize that the nominating jury had recommended...
...Chicago, which has lost a number of classic buildings-notably Louis Sullivan's Chicago Stock Exchange-managed to save its old public library building after several attempts to replace it with a modernistic structure. The 1897 building had long been inadequate for the central library; it was reincarnated as a branch library and a cultural center, in large part through the efforts of Mrs. Richard Daley, widow of the mayor. Though its vast mosaic-lined entrance halls and twin marble staircases leave little room for a functional library, the interior has been restored in all its original quattrocento palazzo...