Word: gulfstream
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...done. At 9:30 a.m. every morning, the chiefs gather around a large rectangular table where they discuss union matters until noon. After lunch, they join the leisure class for the rest of the day. The daytime pleasures include golf, deep-sea fishing, the thoroughbreds at nearby Gulfstream Park and gin rummy beside the pool. By night, the union moguls could be found at restaurants like the Americana's Gaucho Room-known in AFL-CIO circles as the "Gotcha Room," in honor of its $70 steak dinner for two-or such Miami spas as the Cafe Chauveron, where...
When Nelson Rockefeller flew to Washington to be sworn in as Vice President, the family jet pulled up to the ramp at National Airport with the door on the wrong side of the television cameras. He entered capital history totally obscured by the fuselage of his Gulfstream...
Though snow, sleet and fog shrouded the runway, the Grumman Gulfstream private jet ignored instructions to stay aloft and proceeded to land. Aboard was too heavy a load of dreams and ambitions to be put off by the elements. New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller had arrived hi Grand Forks, N. Dak. After two appearances, the Governor, with half a dozen Republican notables in tow, flew on to Minot, N. Dak. Addressing the guests at a $100-a-plate dinner, the first ever held by local Republicans, Rocky paid glowing tribute to every politician in the room: "I had the pleasure...
...times in the past six months, a grandfatherly, supremely confident executive has swooped into Moscow aboard his private Gulfstream jet for talks with the highest Soviet trade officials. This week Armand Hammer, the 74-year-old chairman of Los Angeles' Occidental Petroleum, is scheduled to fly there again, with bright hopes of finally signing a major East-West trade deal. It would be an arrangement for Occidental to ship up to 1,000,000 tons of fertilizer per year to the Soviet Union in exchange for urea and ammonia that the company would sell in the U.S. That, Hammer...
Learjets, Gulfstreams and Sabreliners were among the conspicuous status symbols of the high-flying 1960s, but as the decade closed, sales of executive jets and other private planes fell as much as 50%. Now, in every category of "general aviation" aircraft, which reaches from the $3,500,000 Grumman Gulfstream II jet to the tiny $14,580 Piper Cherokee, sales are once again on the wing. Manufacturers are pretty much in agreement on the basic reason for the reversal. Says Grumman American Aviation President Russell Meyer: "It's clearly geared to the upswing in the economy...