Word: fleets
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...looked on as the newlyweds departed. The wedding itself was attended by only eleven guests, none of whom were from the bride's family. Like other members of the tight-knit international shipping community, they are uncertain what impact the marriage will have on the $500 million Onassis fleet, in which Christina has a 48% interest. (The rest is held by the Monte Carlo-based Alexander Onassis Foundation, which is run by a troika of Ari's cronies.) About 90% of the fleet's tanker business involves the transportation of Saudi Arabian oil. The anti-Communist Saudis...
...United. In the past, such a big deal by United would have sent American, TWA, Eastern and others rushing to place their own orders and thus secure favorable delivery positions. And they would have been crowing about how they were going to create the biggest, all-new, best-everything fleet in the world. So what happened this time? Nothing?so far. U.S. airline chiefs are playing a wait-and-see game. They claim that they will not order new aircraft simply as a reaction to this summer's sudden and unexpected surge. Explains Pan Am's Seawell...
...goes in the chilly waters off Norway these days, where a fleet of ostensibly civilian Soviet ships has been poking about where it has no apparent business. In the past five weeks, at least ten Russian craft have played nautical cat and mouse with the Norwegians. Says Norway's chief of defense staff, General Sverre Hamre: "We seem to be subject to something like old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy...
...month, forced management to ground its planes for three weeks in April. The lockout cost the company $15 million, but its problems did not end there. Among the others: a labor force of 5,500 people that some critics claim is too large, and an aging fleet awaiting delivery of new and more economical jets. In consequence, government economists predict that El Al, which almost routinely rings up profits, could lose $27 million in 1978, the worst performance in its 30-year history...
...first public hint of the impending birth of a British test-tube baby came last spring not from London's Fleet Street but from, Manhattan's South Street, in the New York Post-After getting a tip that Britain's Dr. Patrick Steptoe was on the verge of success with an in vitro fertilization technique, Post Reporter Sharon Churcher placed an overseas call to Steptoe. He let it slip that a test-tube baby might soon be born, and Churcher broke the news on April...