Word: fill
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Seven leading Latin American nations -Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba, Panama, Ecuador-cold-shouldered the U.S. last week to vote for U.S.S.R.-backed Poland instead of U.S.-backed Turkey to fill a U.N. Security Council seat. The failure to muster a two-thirds vote resulted in a deadlock and pushed decision on the issue into this week...
...Auto, appliance, farm-equipment, machinery makers are all tightening their belts, and they face still more trouble before the economy is rolling at full speed again. The mills will need four to six weeks to get back to 90% of capacity, at least three months to fill the empty pipelines...
...many jet-age problems facing the world airline industry, the most pressing is how to find enough passengers to fill all the expensive new planes that will soon be flying. At the 15th annual meeting of the International Air Transport Association in Tokyo last week, Director General Sir William P. Hildred posed the problem, and provided an obvious answer: "We shall have to feed progressively larger gobbets of traffic to these monsters or they will eat us up, capital...
...airlines cannot count on an automatic increase in air travel to fill the new seats. While IATA international air travel has been increasing at a rate of about 15% a year, that is not enough to fill the new jet capacity. The obvious solution is to cut fares to bring air travel within reach of a wider market. The idea has already been tried on the North Atlantic; last year for the first time IATA allowed "economy" fares 20% below tourist rates, and the lines reported a passenger increase of 26.8% for the year...
...clash with the Indians may also produce a new second string varsity quarteback. All varsity quarterbacks other than Ravenel will dress for the game. As yet the Crimson has not found a man who is able to fill the quarterback position should Ravenel be injured...