Word: jumbo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reclusive man who for years paid himself the spartan salary of $10,000. Yet Juan Terry Trippe, the patriarch of Pan American World Airways, was also quite a gambler. He pushed Pan Am into the jet age and in 1966, foreseeing a market for jumbo planes capable of carrying nearly 500 passengers across a continent or an ocean, sealed a $ 150 million deal for six Boeing 747s with a handshake...
...Jumbo Sized...
DIED. James ("Jumbo") Elliott, 66, track and field coach at Villanova since 1935 who led the Wildcats to eight National Collegiate championships and coached 28 Olympians including five gold medalists; of a heart attack; in Juno Beach...
...however, struck a hard bargain. He did not receive any payment for posing,, but demanded that the cigarmaker name its newest product after his Chrysler Imperial, which was relaunched last year (current price: $18,311). Moro every now and then sends the Chrysler chairman a few boxes of the jumbo-sized, 7¼-in. Imperial cigars (cost: $46.25 a box). But Iacocca has not changed his taste in cigars even for the extra publicity. His longtime favorite brand is Cuban Montecristo...
...become the high-brow equivalent of Peter Bogdanovich, a professional--yet always employed--failure. In his last effort, he heaped so much simpleminded Significance on top of Tommy that he destroyed a quality score. With States, he takes an already overwrought script and ladles enough technical mumbo-jumbo onto it to make the film almost unwatchable at times...