Word: gain
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year, U.S. airlines have carried 180 million passengers, a 16% increase over last year and the largest gain in airline history. Two weeks ago Eastern reached 78% of capacity, meaning that all aircraft flying on major routes at peak periods were totally jammed. Last month there were only seven unoccupied seats on all Pan Am planes arriving in the U.S. from Europe and the Middle East. The earnings of airlines are heading toward unprecedented heights, proving the old (and often ignored) capitalist doctrine that lower prices lead to higher demand, which in turn creates higher profits. In the first...
...acre of the threatened land, subdivided it into 4,840 parcels of about one square yard each, and offered them for sale at $20 apiece. So far, they have sold about 1,000, thus complicating to a fare-thee-well the paper work that the Government must perform to gain control of the land. At the very least, said antidam Farmer Lynn Martin, the tactic "will give us a war chest." But how long or how effectively it will obstruct the dam, he can only guess. Perhaps only until the next flood...
...also become a passion. As members of six motor-coaching chapters, the Westbrooks roll up to a score of rallies around the country each year. "You lose a lot of friends this way," drawls Darold. "All my old friends wanted to talk about was show biz. But you gain a lot of new friends too. All they want to talk about is how to get 10 mpg out of a 225 hp Cummins Diesel with 59,500 miles on it." "Yeah," interjects the comely Darlene, "when you get to one of these rallies, all you see of your husband...
...secular as well as religious culture, Authors Gusztaá Gecse and Henrik Horváth announce that their goal is to explain it as "a human and literary creation." In a favorable editorial, the Communist Party daily Népszabadság listed three reasons for Communists to gain familiarity with Christianity's handbook. One was to understand such Bible-based expressions as "Solomonic verdict" and "scapegoat," another to "enrich the dialogue with believers." But the most important, said Népszabadság, was that knowing the Bible "can in fact strengthen official ideology." The editorial...
...with a major story the next day; London's Daily Mail is said to have offered $190 to an Oldham reporter for the parents' names, and journalists began pouring into town from around the world. At least one posed as a friend of a patient to gain admittance to the hospital. Three Japanese photographers began shooting pictures of every pregnant woman in sight. Said a hospital spokesman: "It seems if you move anything, there is a reporter behind...