Word: delta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gone up 13% to 19% since January, and will probably rise another 10% to 15% before the year is out. The higher the fares, the fewer the passengers; Pan Am's transatlantic passenger volume is down 23% this year. Meanwhile, more than just fuel costs have been spiraling. Delta Airlines recently agreed to boost the average annual salaries of its pilots to $48,000 by mid-1976, v. $42,000 now; the top of the union scale provides a clearly inflationary $100,000 a year in wages and benefits for Delta's 747 pilots. Those raises have caused...
...draws on classical style and technique in much the same way the Stones draw on blues, The Band on country, or John McLaughlin's Mahavishnu Orchestra on jazz. Its sound has a white, diatonic, often ethereal quality that could never be confused with anything rooted in the Mississippi Delta or North Carolina backwoods. What certifies it as rock is its tight hold on the big beat. "We could jam with the Grateful Dead," says Guitarist Greg Lake of ELP, "but it would be impossible for them to jam with...
...Eric Clapton (late of Cream), Stephen Stills (Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young) and John McLaughlin (soon to found the Mahavishnu Orchestra) would drop by. Hendrix would unwind, stretch and bend the notes as he never could onstage. He would make his guitar wail like a lost soul on the Delta. Sometimes it sounded like a horn, sometimes like a violin. Suddenly it would laugh its way to a final cadence. An old bottle-neck blues number might go on for a half-hour...
...Rolls-Royce's fame as a symbol of luxury, instead of joining the trend toward bringing out smaller, gas-saving cars. He recently kicked up retail prices of the popular Silver Shadow from about $25,500 to $31,000. Now he is preparing a new model, code-named Delta, which at $50,000 may be the world's most expensive production...
...raises, especially in the often pace-setting construction industry. Two weeks ago, San Francisco plumbers and pipefitters won a one-year raise of nearly 18%. Welders and other metal craftsmen in Portland, Ore., signed a contract that will raise their hourly rate a minimum of 38% by October 1976. Delta Air Lines pilots recently won a 25% to 30% raise over 26 months...