Word: delta
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Small Profit. Last year the nation's 11 major scheduled lines had a collective loss of $110 million v. a profit of $321 million in 1974. Only five carriers managed to make a profit in 1975: Northwest, Delta, Braniff, Western and National. The nation's largest line, United, which on top of everything else was grounded for 16 days in December by a mechanics' strike, registered a loss of $7.7 million for 1975-and has already dropped another $35 million in the first two months of this year...
...works at Logan, said that his job there was "to guard the stewardesses," and he winked. Then more soberly he said that most stewardesses are respectable married women and that "only 25 per cent or so are quote unquote The Stewardesses." Charlie would like to be a steward for Delta, but he said he is not sexy enough...
...Harvard chapter of Phi Delta Kappa, a professional education association, will present a check for a $100 scholarship to the headmaster of Roxbury High School this morning...
...muggings still take place. Attacks on North Vietnamese troops continued at least until late last fall. Larger-scale resistance continued in the countryside, carried out by units of ARVN soldiers, Montagnards and members of the anti-Communist religious sect, the Hoa Hao, which still controls much of the Delta. The Communists claim that some 7,000 "enemy troops" have been captured in the past six months. Though the anti-Communist holdouts do not pose a serious threat, the North Vietnamese have not yet withdrawn their estimated 20 divisions (200,000 soldiers) from the South...
...reinvigorate that of the war-exhausted North. During the war, South Viet Nam imported 80% of its goods. Since American aid stopped, many of the country's industries have run down, and there are an estimated 1 million unemployed. Thanks to a bumper crop in the Mekong Delta (plus some imports from the North) the government has been able to supply ample rice at low prices. But most canned goods are now beyond the reach of ordinary people. Gasoline for Saigon's swarms of Hondas is officially rationed, but it can be obtained easily on the open market...