Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Street, where he is a board member of the Oppenheimer investment firm. At times, Aaron can get carried away with brand names, as when he notes that a character was able to fall asleep on a plane "despite a monster roar from the four Rolls-Royce SNECMA Olympus 593 jet engines." But he manages to keep his plot shifting as fast as the ticks in the price of a takeover stock...
HONOLULU--A gaping hole ripped open on the right side of a United Airlines jumbo jet carrying 354 people yesterday, sucking as many as 16 passengers to their death 20,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean, authorities said...
...Seattle Times, citing Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) records, reported that United Airlines filed a "service difficulty report" in January 1987 on the 19-year-old jet after mechanics found cracks and corrosion around the pylon of the Number 3 engine...
...Beebe's enterprises grew, he reveled in the trappings. He acquired a nine-passenger Hawker Siddeley jet to carry business associates on golfing trips. He took clients duck hunting in the Louisiana marshes on a lavish two- story barge. In Shreveport, he built a $1 million home for his family, as well as a gleaming seven-story office building...
...gasoline thick in the air, the 314 passengers and crew members were rescued unharmed by scientists in small boats from the U.S. research center at Palmer Station, a mile away. But the ship began leaking its 250,000 gal. of oil and spilling cargo, including drums of diesel and jet fuel and tanks of compressed gas, from its deck...