Word: fleeting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...super jet has so far been dominated by a single craft, the giant Boeing 747. Some 250 of them are already cruising the skies, carrying an average of 325 seats each. Now a whole new set of superjets is coming into service, a fleet that will introduce the marvels and frustrations of wide-bodied planes to travelers taking much shorter trips than the 747 ordinarily makes. The McDonnell Douglas DC-10 (see color) has just begun commercial flights, and in 1974 U.S. and European airlines plan to start using at least four other superjets...
...outer harbors, their flags announcing origins as distant as Japan and the Soviet Union. Inside their holds lay cargo amounting to hundreds of thousands of tons, some of it already spoiled, consigned to destinations all over the U.S. In all, some 150 freighters have been rendered a Pacific mothball fleet by a strike of 15,000 West Coast dock workers. Last week the walkout moved into its third month, and there seemed little hope of an early settlement. "It takes a month to get everything shut up tight," says Union President Harry Bridges, who last...
...responsible for the maintenance of 54,000 federally owned vehicles, has converted 1,023 of the autos so that they now use compressed or liquefied natural gas, or butane and propane for fuel. The change reduces the autos' air pollutants by nearly 90%. Eventually the entire federal fleet may be converted to the new fuels...
...that in part, but the accord, by apparently ending India's nonalignment, also promises important benefits for the Soviet Union. It gives the Russians influence and status on the Indian subcontinent, perhaps including ports of call and bunkering facilities for the Soviet Union's growing Indian Ocean fleet. Most important, the treaty was a countermeasure to the stunning U.S. move toward Peking. In the long perspective, most observers would bet on China rather than on India as a major military and industrial power of the future. Nevertheless, in aligning with India, Asia's second most populous nation...
Twenty years ago an organizational meeting of the nation's black judges could have been held in the back of a single bus. Today it would take a small fleet of Greyhounds. To celebrate that growth, and what it means to the administration of justice, half of the nation's 269 black judges met in Atlanta this month to establish the Judicial Council of the predominantly black National Bar Association...