Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bigger house. Though corporate profits on the whole are still rising smartly, interest costs and inflated operating expenses are driving a growing number of businesses to the wall. Pan American World Airways (1973 revenues: $1.4 billion), plagued by an inflation-induced drop in travel and a rocketing rise in jet-fuel costs, may be unable to pay its bills unless it gets a Government subsidy of $10 million a month. Nationwide, more than 5,000 businesses failed in the first half of 1974, leaving unpaid bills of more than $1.5 billion, almost 50% more than the liabilities of businesses that...
Chamberlain's makeup artists spent a full two hours applying the dungeon look, and though the actor suffered through some scenes with a bad case of jet lag, no one seemed to notice...
Lost to NATO now are: the 120,000-man Greek army, equipped with modern American weapons; the 160 jet fighters of the Greek air force that were to provide more than 15% of the combat planes available to NATO'S southern command (Greece, Turkey, Italy and the U.S.); and the Greek navy's seven submarines and 13 destroyers and destroyer escorts that helped the U.S. Sixth Fleet in maintaining a balance in the eastern Mediterranean with the increasing Soviet naval presence. No longer will the movement of Greek troops be coordinated by NATO, nor will they participate...
Much more important for Schwimmer, I.A.I.'s planes and weapons performed well during the October war. The company's own fighter, the Barak (Hebrew for lightning), did especially well: of the 70 planes that saw combat, only three were lost. The plane carries a General Electric jet engine in an Israeli-built French Mirage III C, the plans for which were spirited out of France when Charles de Gaulle cut off deliveries to Israel after the Six-Day War in 1967. It is the first fighter ever manufactured in Israel, and a special feather in Schwimmer...
...designed by a group of engineers organized as the Megalifter Co. of Goleta, Calif., after NASA'S Ames Research Center invited proposals for lighter-than-air ships to transport heavy, bulky cargoes. At the roots of its undersized wings, which resemble Flipper's flippers, are four jet engines with a combined thrust of 164,000 Ibs. There are also two small engines near the wing tips to control yawing and rolling. The 650-ft. hull would have 7 million cu. ft. of buoyant helium in its gas cells...