Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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America's yachting heyday was in the early 20th century, when wealthy industrialists competed in creating elaborate waterborne palaces. Over the years, buying, building and chartering of yachts remained small and select, and in the late '70s, business hit bottom. Today the number of American-owned jumbos, over 100 ft. from stem to stern, is increasing from 80 in 1986 to 129, with the launch of 49 new yachts now under construction. More remarkable is that 33 of these yachts will be products of U.S. yards, rather than foreign competitors. Jumbo yachts sport a hefty price tag, ranging from...
...jumbo yacht business is booming as multimillionaires queue up to buy speedy, high- tech boats from American builders...
...faulty conception and just plain bad luck. Last week the Bridgeton, a Kuwaiti tanker now flying the Stars and Stripes, prepared to limp out of the Persian Gulf with a 30-ft. by 10-ft. hole in its hull caused by a mine that caught its American protectors unprepared. Jumbo military transports belatedly began ferrying minesweeping helicopters from Norfolk, Va. A Navy helicopter trying to land on the command ship of the task force crashed, with four Americans presumed dead. And the whole region was on edge in the wake of a protest by Iranian pilgrims that turned into...
...Pacific Ocean after a pilot accidentally shut off the plane's engines. The following week, on a stormy night in Kentucky, a Delta flight landed in Frankfort when it was supposed to touch down in Lexington. Two days later one of the carrier's L-1011 jumbo jets was off course and reportedly came within 100 ft. of colliding with a Continental 747 over the Atlantic Ocean...
Gazing out of her window as she rode a jumbo jet from London to Newark last * Wednesday, Passenger Candi Meacham was enjoying the clear blue Atlantic vista when her reverie was rudely shattered. Suddenly what had at first seemed to be just a speck in the sky became another airliner that was streaking right toward her Continental Airlines 747. "I knew it was going to hit us," the Jacksonville homemaker recalled with a shudder...