Word: jetport
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...controls, Boucher assumed that the pilot had dropped into the Atlantic and asked for a Coast Guard search. But when he made an emergency landing at Portland International Jetport, Boucher discovered happily that Dempsey was still hanging on to the door. His head had missed striking the ground by 12 inches. He suffered only a bruised wrist...
...member organization she founded in 1970, she has battled civilization's encroachments in an effort to preserve and restore North America's only subtropical zone. Douglas and her recruits, dubbed Marjory's Army, have scored impressive victories, helping to block construction of an international jetport in the marshland, forcing the closing of two drainage canals and strengthening restrictions on real estate developers. Those successes are all the more impressive since they depend on a shoestring budget: the Friends of the Everglades' treasury currently contains only $12,000. Says Douglas of the powerful forces aligned against...
...sheer size no other airport in the world can match it. With its twin terminals and 138 boarding gates, the new passenger complex at the William B. Hartsfield Atlanta International Airport, which opened last week, sprawls over an area equivalent to 45 football fields. The $500 million jetport is far bigger than its closest rival: the terminal at Dallas/Fort Worth Airport covers a mere 29 football fields...
Atlanta's position as the Southeast's business center and its commitment to air travel are closely linked. In 1961 the city built the region's first modern jetport, which helped attract a wave of corporate immigrants. More than 80% of the top 500 U.S. companies now have offices in Atlanta. The number of conventions held there has soared from 440 in 1968 to 860 this year. Atlanta's trade-show coliseum, the Georgia World Congress Center, already booked solid through 1989, is asking the state legislature for $86 million to almost double its size. Hartsfield...