Word: flooding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Like all upheavals, this one is rich in uncertainties, anxieties and discomfort. Neither the airlines nor the airports are prepared to cope with the passenger flood. Delays, snafu's and frustration are the daily fare of today's traveler. "No one saw it coming," concedes Richard Ferris, president of United, the largest airline in the non-Communist world. "If anyone had told me last year that we would be up 21% in traffic so far this year, we would have straitjacketed him and locked him away." Now such a prescient person would probably be promoted to Senior Vice President...
Five times in the last ten years, the Souris River has flooded its banks and sent many of the 35,000 citizens of Minot, N.Dakota, scurrying to higher land. The U.S. Government has poured funds into various flood control measures, but to little avail; and now Congress is considering construction of a $100 million dam that would flood some 30,000 acres of land upstream from the town...
...million annual revenues. Other outfits, including makers of armored vehicles and surveillance systems, as well as anti-kid-nap driving schools, are also expanding. For years, says David Dearborn, director of investigations at Pinkerton's, selling security in the U.S. has been "a little like selling flood insurance in the desert." That is changing: "While the American businessman still doesn't typically think of security for himself or his family, the American business...
Since then, charge Congressmen, sugar growers and corn fructose producers, the Administration has dragged its feet in implementing the amendment. Tariffs were not imposed until November, and even then there were big loopholes that allowed foreign sugar to flood the U.S. market in December (TIME, March...
...cope by putting on more flights. United, for example, is adding 129 per day. Aisles will become narrower and the cabins more cramped as an extra seat per row is added by many airlines in the Lockheed TriStar, Boeing 747 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 jumbos. To handle the flood of incoming calls, the airlines are hiring more agents; American has engaged 250 and United...